Homicide Watch Chicago

BY MICHAEL LANSU Homicide Watch Chicago Editor Eleven people were murdered throughout the city last week, and a 12th person died after being shot last August on the South Side. Despite the violent end to the month, there were fewer murders this October than in October 2011 and 2012. The month also had an eight-day … Read more →

Marcus Gaiter was fatally shot blocks from his Auburn Gresham neighborhood home on Halloween. Gaiter, 25, was sitting in the passenger seat of a vehicle in the 8600 block of South Morgan Street when he was shot in the shoulder about 9:45 p.m. Thursday, authorities said. The driver was not wounded and drove Gaiter, of … Read more →

Two men were shot dead and six other people were wounded by gunfire throughout the city Halloween night into early Friday. Marcus Gaiter, 25, was shot in the shoulder as he sat in the front passenger seat of a vehicle in the 8600 block of South Morgan Street about 9:45 p.m. Thursday, authorities said. A … Read more →