Homicide Watch Chicago

By ELIZABETH CZAPSKI Homicide Watch Chicago Tenisha Mallett was working on going back to school, hoping to make a better life for herself and young daughter. She attended the Austin Career Education Center, and was interested in culinary arts, her mother, Yvonne Mallett, said. Yvonne, who recently moved to Indiana, offered to watch her then-3-year-old … Read more →

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 young mother killed in a Saturday night shooting in the West Side Austin neighborhood that left three other people wounded has been identified as 21-year-old Tenisha Mallett. The four were outside about 8:30 p.m. in the 100 block of North Mayfield when a dark SUV approached, Chicago Police said. Two people got out of … Read more →