Homicide Watch Chicago

BY ANGELIQUE WHITE Homicide Watch Chicago William Paschal was ordered held on a $1 million bond Tuesday for his alleged role in an armed robbery that ended in a fatal retaliation shooting last January in the Chicago Lawn neighborhood, prosecutors said. Paschal and an acquaintance are accused of fatally shooting 19-year-old college student Kevin Baker … Read more →

William Paschal / Photo from Chicago Police William Paschal has been charged with murder in the shooting death of college student Kevin Baker in January in the Chicago Lawn community. Paschal, 18, of the 7200 block of South Artesian Avenue, was also charged with two counts of armed robbery with a firearm, police said. Baker, … Read more →

BY MICHAEL LANSU Homicide Watch Chicago Editor Eight men were shot to death in killings throughout the city last week. The most recent murders happened when two men were shot to death during an apparent home invasion in the 9100 block of South Commercial Avenue about 5 a.m. Sunday, police said. A neighbor called police … Read more →

BY BECKY SCHLIKERMAN Chicago Sun-Times A South Side college student who was shot despite handing his cellphone over to two robbers died Saturday. Kevin Baker, 19, was pronounced dead at 5:45 a.m. Saturday at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. Baker, a student at Harold Washington … Read more →