Homicide Watch Chicago

By MITCH DUDEK Chicago Sun-Times The murder cases are eerily similar. In 1989 Douglas Askew killed his pregnant girlfriend. He shot her in the forehead and the back of her head outside of her Robbins home. He also shot her sister in the face and her stepdad in the back. Both survived. He was sentenced … Read more →

By JEFF MAYES Chicago Sun-Times Wire The calendar turned from 2016 to 2017, and the temperatures took a downward spike, but nothing seemed to slow the pace of the killings in CHicago, as at least 13 people were killed in violence last week in Chicago. The year ended with at least 780 homicides (762 by … Read more →

Sylvia Brice was killed and another woman critically wounded in what police called a domestic stabbing Saturday afternoon in the Princeton Park neighborhood on the South Side. The domestic-related attack happened at 2:08 p.m. in the 9300 block of South Wentworth, according to Chicago Police. Brice, 52, was stabbed multiple times and was taken to … Read more →