Homicide Watch Chicago

By JEFF MAYES Homicide Watch Chicago A week that started out with about four full days without a homicide suddenly exploded into a bloodbath when four shootings left eight people dead in a matter of 24 hours in the South Shore neighborhood, and by the time it ended, 18 lives were lost to violence in … Read more →

By SAM CHARLES, ANDY GRIMM and MITCHELL ARMENTROUT Chicago Sun-Times Maurice Harris’ father — 37-year-old Jerry Jacobs, who had nearly four dozen arrests, including two for murder — was gunned down on a sidewalk in the South Shore neighborhood around 11:15 p.m. March 29. The next day, his son appears to have been out for … Read more →

Patrice L. Calvin was preparing for the birth of her first child. Now her family is preparing for a funeral. The 26-year-old was found shot to death Thursday afternoon in her apartment in the South Shore neighborhood. Calvin was found unresponsive with a gunshot wound to the head in her apartment in the 7500 block … Read more →