Homicide Watch Chicago

By RUMMANA HUSSAIN Chicago Sun-Times Mecahel Holder and two women got some beer and watched Fourth of July fireworks in Humboldt Park. At midnight, the trio sang “Happy Birthday” for one of the women in the group, who turned 27 on July 5. Then the celebrations turned deadly when Holder started arguing with 31-year-old Brandon … Read more →

By JORDAN OWEN Chicago Sun-Times Wire A 31-year-old man has been charged with killing Mecahel Holder and wounding two women in a shooting at a party over the Fourth of July weekend in the Humboldt Park neighborhood. Brandon Collins, 31, was charged with one count of first-degree murder and two counts of attempted first-degree murder, … Read more →

By JEFF MAYES Chicago Sun-Times Wire While the public’s attention was drawn to fatal police shootings in Minnesota and Louisiana, and the killing of five police officers in Dallas last week, at least 12 people died in violence in Chicago, a number that could rise. Police shootings in Baton Rouge and a Minneapolis suburb led … Read more →

Mecahel Holder was killed and two women were injured in a shooting early Tuesday in the Humboldt Park neighborhood. Holder, 34, was standing outside in the 1100 block of North Ridgeway talking to the two women, who were sitting in a parked vehicle at 1:35 a.m. He then got into an argument with a pair … Read more →