Homicide Watch Chicago

By JORDAN OWEN Chicago Sun-Times Wire A man has been charged with the fatal shooting of 24-year-old Mikal Malik Johnson in the Northwest Side Logan Square neighborhood last April. Joshua Rodriguez, 23, faces one count of first-degree murder for the fatal shooting on April 8, according to the Cook County state’s attorney’s office. Johnson was … Read more →

BY MICHAEL LANSU Homicide Watch Chicago Editor Four men were fatally shot and a 56-year-old woman was suffocated last week in Chicago. Two of the fatal shootings happened over the weekend, when at least 26 other people were wounded by gunfire. The most recent killing happened when a 22-year-old man sitting a vehicle parked in … Read more →

BY MATT McCALL Homicide Watch Chicago Mikal Johnson was excited to learn that he made the cut for a local semi-pro football team. Two days later, the former star running back at Rolling Meadows High School was shot to death in the Logan Square neighborhood, authorities said. Relatives said Mikal Johnson was also a member … Read more →

Mikal Malik Johnson was shot to death in the Logan Square neighborhood early Wednesday. Johnson, 24, was walking in the 2700 block of West Bloomingdale Avenue when a vehicle pulled up and somebody inside got out and shot him in the chest about 3 a.m. Wednesday, authorities said. The shooter got back into the vehicle, … Read more →