Homicide Watch Chicago

By ELIZABETH CZAPSKI Homicide Watch Chicago When Jessica Sanchez got the call that her two brothers and her close friend, Natalia Ramirez, had been shot, she “instantly broke down.” “All I kept thinking was, ‘Just please let them all survive,’” Sanchez said. Sanchez’s brothers survived the shooting. Ramirez, a 27-year-old mother of two boys, did … Read more →

By JEFF MAYES Chicago Sun-Times Wire Two teenage boys were among at least 19 people who died last week as a result of violence in Chicago last week, as the epidemic of gunfire continued to take its toll. While 2016 saw the most murders in Chicago in more than two decades, 2017 is starting off … Read more →

Natalia Ramirez, 27-year-old mother of two, was killed and two men were wounded in a shooting early Sunday in the Brighton Park neighborhood on the Southwest Side. About 3:15 a.m., the three victims were inside a vehicle parked in the 3800 block of South St. Louis. Another car pulled up, and a gunman got out … Read more →