Homicide Watch Chicago

At least 13 people died from violence the week of October 23-29 in Chicago. The victims included 10 people who where fatally shot, including two who police said were killed in “accidental” shootings. The homicides considered accidental by police were the shootings of a 16-year-old girl and a 21-year-old woman, police said. The girl, identified … Read more →

19-year-old Shakeyah Jackson died Monday, more than 10 months after she was shot multiple times during a Roseland neighborhood home invasion and shooting that killed four other people last year. Jackson died at 6:54 p.m. Monday at Oaklawn Respiratory and Rehabilitation Center, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. She had been in a … Read more →

By ANDY GRIMM Chicago Sun-Times A survivor of a brutal Far South Side home invasion that left Elijah Jackson, his pregnant sister, Shacora Jackson; Shacora’s 19-year-old daughter, Nateyah Yafah Hines; and Scott Travis Thompson dead told investigators he listened to one of the victims beg for his life, prosecutors said Thursday. Lionel Parks and a … Read more →

By JEFF MAYES Chicago Sun-Times Wire At least 15 people were killed in Chicago last week, including four who were slain in what police called a robbery or home invasion as a home where drugs were being sold on the Far South Side. The Fernwood massacre occurred Saturday at what Chicago Police called “dope house” … Read more →

By SAM CHARLES, JACOB WITTICH and JORDAN OWEN Chicago Sun-Times Four people were killed in a Far South Side shooting that may have been the result of a home invasion or robbery at a “dope house,” according to Chicago Police. Officers were called at 12:39 p.m. Saturday to a 1 1/2-story home in the 100 … Read more →