Homicide Watch Chicago

BY JESSICA KOSCIELNIAK Chicago Sun-Times A wounded Alex Garrido climbed into the driver’s seat of his brother’s Lincoln Navigator and attempted to take his bleeding relatives to a hospital after a flurry of bullets entered the SUV Easter Sunday in the Little Village neighborhood. Garrido, 23, said he was in the backseat with two young … Read more →

BY MICHAEL LANSU Homicide Watch Chicago Editor Nine people were fatally shot throughout the city last week, and a 10th died from injuries suffered in an earlier shooting. Eight of the murders happened during an especially violent weekend, which saw at least 37 other people wounded by gunfire. The most recent murders happened when two … Read more →

PHOTOS BY ALEX WROBLEWSKI Juan Ocon and Timmy Bermudez were fatally shot Sunday afternoon while riding in an SUV in the Little Village Neighborhood. After the shooting, the Lincoln Navigator with the wounded passengers sped off and eventually stopped at West 24th Street and South Kedzie Avenue. Read more →

Double murder in Little Village / Photo by Alex Wroblewski Juan Ocon and Timmy Bermudez were shot dead on a Little Village street on Easter Sunday. About 1 p.m., an orange Hummer blocked a Lincoln Navigator head-on at the corner of West 28th Street and South Sawyer Avenue, police said at the scene. Two gunmen … Read more →