Homicide Watch Chicago

A second man has been charged with killing Kwamaine Lovette and Kortney Blakes, and wounding two others, in a shooting at a West Side park last summer. Ricky Dortch, 29, was arrested Thursday and charged with two counts of first-degree murder and two counts of aggravated battery with discharge of a firearm, all felonies, according … Read more →

By JORDAN OWEN Chicago Sun-Times Wire A 19-year-old west suburban man has been charged with killing Kortney Blakes and Kwamaine L. Lovette, and wounding two others in a shooting at an East Garfield Park neighborhood park last summer. Frank Robinson has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder and two counts of aggravated battery … Read more →

By JEFF MAYES Chicago Sun-Times Wire At least 11 people were homicide victims in Chicago last week, including a 66-year-old man fatally struck by a vehicle as the driver was speeding away from a traffic stop. And that number could go up as authorities investigate a suspicious fire that claimed two lives in Garfield Ridge, … Read more →

Kortney Blakes was killed and three other men injured in a shooting Wednesday morning in a park in the East Garfield Park neighborhood on West Side. The shooting happened at Horan Park in the 3000 block of West Van Buren at 10:36 a.m., according to Chicago Police. Blakes, 23, was shot in the head and … Read more →