Homicide Watch Chicago

By JARED LANDSMAN Homicide Watch Chicago The Washington Heights community will honor the memory of 17-year-old gunshot victim Marcel Pearson with a memorial and festival a year after he was gunned down near his South Side home. Pearson was fatally shot on July 8, 2014, while walking through Robichaux Park near his Washington Heights neighborhood … Read more →

BY MICHAEL LANSU Homicide Watch Chicago Editor Twelve people died last week from shootings throughout Chicago. Three of the shootings happened early last Monday at the end of a bloody Independence Day weekend that saw 13 people killed and 58 others wounded by gunfire. The last shooting of the week happened when a gunman walked … Read more →

BY KALEY FOWLER Homicide Watch Chicago Marcel Pearson was fatally shot late Tuesday near his Washington Heights area home just days before his college orientation. Pearson, 17, and a 15-year-old acquaintance had just left a store and were walking through Robichaux Park in the 9200 block of South Eggleston Avenue when a white van pulled … Read more →