Homicide Watch Chicago

Arthur Walker / Photo from Chicago Police BY JORDAN OWEN Sun-Times Media A fourth person has been charged with murder after prosecutors claim he was part of a group that beat and fatally shot Martrell Ross outside a River North nightclub in August. Cicero police arrested 23-year-old Arthur Walker Sunday and he was later charged … Read more →

BY MICHAEL LANSU Homicide Watch Chicago Editor Three people leaning against a car outside a trendy River North nightclub sparked a dispute that left one of the men dead and another seriously wounded this month, prosecutors said. Javon Almond, Deandre Hughes, Bianca Young and fourth person left the Bodi nightclub about 3:50 a.m. Aug. 3 … Read more →

Martrell Ross was fatally shot this month outside a River North nightclub. Reader Dedric Wilson posted this about him: Dam, that was my homie. We went to simeon together back in the day, smdh… R.I.H. Martrell Read more →

BY ANGELIQUE WHITE Homicide Watch Chicago Martrell Ross enjoyed rap music and dancing, his uncle said. Ross, 32, was fatally shot about 3:50 a.m. Sunday in an alley in the 800 block of North Orleans Street, authorities said. The shooting happened near nightclubs hosting Lollapalooza afterparties for rappers Nas and Big Boi. Ross was a … Read more →

BY MICHAEL LANSU Homicide Watch Chicago Editor Eight people were murdered throughout Chicago last week. Five of the killings happened over the weekend, when 29 people were shot. The most recent murder happened when 17-year-old Jerome Harris was shot in the neck in the 1100 block of West 112th Place about 9 p.m. Sunday, authorities … Read more →

BY BRIAN SLODYSKO Chicago Sun-Times Chicago Police shot at – but did not wound – a man they saw running away from a fatal shooting near a nightclub on the Near North Side early Sunday. The fatal shooting occurred on the block of nightclub Bodi at 873 N. Orleans St. Rapper Nas was scheduled to … Read more →