Homicide Watch Chicago

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 →

Michael Griffin of southwest suburban Tinley Park was shot to death on the Fourth of July in the South Shore neighborhood. Officers responding about 9:20 p.m. Monday to a call of a traffic crash with injuries in the 6900 block of South Clyde found the 40-year-old Griffin lying in the street with a gunshot wound … Read more →