Homicide Watch Chicago

By JEFF MAYES Chicago Sun-Times Wire At least 6 people died from violence in Chicago last week, including a newborn baby girl, whose mother is charged with dropping her from an 8th-floor window shortly after giving birth on the North Side. The newborn, being called Baby Jane Uddin was found dead outside an Uptown building … Read more →

By RUMMANNA HUSSAIN Chicago Sun-Times An Austin man has been charged with beating his mother’s fiance Terrell Peterson to death in front of two young relatives who were watching cartoons in a bedroom of the family’s home. After beating the 42-year-old Peterson, Dwayne Jones took off on one of the children’s bicycles, Cook County prosecutors … Read more →

A person was in police custody Wednesday afternoon after 42-year-old Terrell Peterson was found dead following a fight inside an apartment Wednesday morning in the West Side Austin neighborhood. Officers responding to a report of a battery in progress at an apartment in the 800 block of North Central at 6:30 a.m. found Peterson unresponsive, … Read more →