Homicide Watch Chicago

By RUMMANA HUSSAIN Chicago Sun-Times A 17-year-old boy was ordered held without bond Thursday for a gang-related shooting that left 19-year-old Mahdi Herring dead and two others wounded on the South Side over the summer. Herring and a 16-year-old boy were standing outside the 71st Meat Market, at the corner at 71st and Rhodes, on … Read more →

By JEFF MAYES Chicago Sun-Times Wire While it did not become official until Wednesday morning, this August has been the deadliest month in Chicago in nearly 20 years. En route to reaching that 80th homicide of the month this week, at least 22 people were homicide victims last week, including three girls 7 and younger … Read more →

Mahdi Herring was killed and two other people were wounded in a shooting Saturday afternoon just blocks from his home in the Park Manor neighborhood. The three were arguing with a group of people about 12:15 p.m. in the 7100 block of South Rhodes when someone in the other group pulled out a gun and … Read more →