Homicide Watch Chicago

By JORDAN OWEN Chicago Sun-Times Wire A 75-year-old man has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for stabbing his friend Raymond Robinson to death nearly three years ago during an argument at the Englewood retirement home where they lived. Roosevelt Shaffer pleaded guilty Thursday to second-degree murder before Judge Nicholas Ford, according to Cook … Read more →

BY MICHAEL LANSU Homicide Watch Chicago Editor Four people were murdered last week in citywide violence. The youngest victim was a 20-month-old boy, while the oldest was a 69-year-old man. Two men have been charged with murder in those killings. Two of the killings were shootings, one was a stabbing and the toddler died of … Read more →

Roosevelt Shaffer / Photo from Chicago Police BY JON SEIDEL AND LEEANN SHELTON Chicago Sun-Times A 72-year-old man was ordered held on $500,000 bond Sunday, charged with stabbing his friend to death over a jacket at the retirement home where they both lived. Roosevelt Shaffer, 72, is charged with one count of first-degree murder in … Read more →

Roosevelt Shaffer / Photo from Chicago Police A 72-year-old man has been charged for allegedly stabbing a 69-year-old man to death Friday morning in Englewood. Roosevelt Shaffer, of the 900 block of West 63rd Street, was charged with one count of first-degree murder, police said. He is expected to appear in court for a bond … Read more →

A 69-year-old man was stabbed to death in the Englewood neighborhood Friday morning. Raymond Robinson was stabbed about 10 a.m. Friday in the 900 block of West 63rd Street, authorities said. He may have been in an argument with another man who stabbed him on the right side of his chest, police said. Robinson, of … Read more →