Homicide Watch Chicago

By ELIZABETH CZAPSKI Homicide Watch Chicago On a summer day during their sophomore year of high school, Kayla Taylor and her boyfriend, Stevie Jefferson, sat down to talk about their future. They envisioned a life together in Virginia after graduation, where they wanted to go to college, get good jobs, get married and have kids. … Read more →

By JEFF MAYES Chicago Sun-Times Wire At least eight people were killed in Chicago violence last week, including two brothers and a pair of teenage boys, all of whom died after a pair of shootings on the West Side. The boys were killed in a drive-by shooting that also left a 65-year-old woman was wounded … Read more →

Two teenage boys—Malik McNeese and Stevie Jefferson were shot to death outside a home in the East Garfield Park neighborhood on the West Side Tuesday afternoon, and a stray bullet also injured a woman inside her home. McNeese, 16, and Jefferson, 17, were on a sidewalk about noon in the 3400 block of West Fulton, … Read more →