Homicide Watch Chicago

Juan Martinez was found shot to death Sunday morning in an alley in the Gage Park neighborhood on the Southwest Side. About 5:35 a.m., officers responding to a call of a person down in the alley in the 5300 block of South Washtenaw found 28-year-old Martinez lying on the ground with a gunshot wound to … Read more →

Vicente Salgado / Photo from Chicago Police BY MICHAEL LANSU Homicide Watch Chicago Editor A Southwest Side man was ordered held on a $1.5 million bond Monday after prosecutors claimed he fatally stabbed his estranged wife’s new boyfriend during a confrontation outside a Back of the Yards neighborhood Burger King. Vicente Salgado and his estranged … Read more →

BY MICHAEL LANSU Homicide Watch Chicago Editor Five people were fatally shot and one person was stabbed to death last week in Chicago. Four of the killings happened over the weekend, when at least 16 other people were shot and wounded. The most recent slaying happened when police performing a well-being check found 25-year-old Berwyn … Read more →

Juan Martinez was stabbed to death in the Back of the Yards neighborhood Saturday afternoon. Martinez, 40, was standing with his girlfriend in the 2000 block of West 47th Street when a man the couple knew confronted them about 4:10 p.m. Saturday, authorities said. During the confrontation, the 39-year-old man pulled out a knife and … Read more →