Homicide Watch Chicago

By JEFF MAYES Chicago Sun-Times Wire It was another violent week in Chicago, with at least 10 people killed last week, including three in the West Austin neighborhood alone. The death toll included a 2-month-old girl whose death in the Humboldt Park neighborhood was ruled a homicide by child abuse; and a popular local rapper … Read more →

A man found shot to death Saturday morning in an Austin neighborhood alley on the West Side has been identified as 33-year-old Taurins Pope. Officers responding to a shooting at 6:53 a.m. in the 100 block of North Menard found him unresponsive with a gunshot wound to the head, police said. Pope was pronounced dead … Read more →