Homicide Watch Chicago

By TRISTAN SIMS Homicide Watch Chicago Tashanti Blanton has been in a cinematography program since second grade, but never imagined it would serve as a healing tool for getting over the death of her father, Tyshawn Blanton, murdered in 2013 in an Old Town convenience store. The 13-year-old has already learned the basics of video, … Read more →

By Cheyenne Blount, Breanna Lucas, Lily Oberman and Cat Zakrzewski Special to Homicide Watch Chicago Abe Abdrabo was in a back room of his convenience store on the phone with his cousin when he heard a pop, pop, pop. As he stepped into the main part of his store – the Old Town Mini Mart … Read more →

Sun-Times Media Wire, January 10, 2013 3:44PM The family of a father of seven, gunned down outside an Old Town store where he’d gone to buy diapers and milk for his young children Tuesday, are denying police allegations that he was a gang member. TyShawn Blanton, 31, and a 20-year-old man were shot multiple times … Read more →

Sun-Times Media Wire, January 9, 2013 5:50AM Two men were shot—one fatally—at a convenience store Tuesday night in the Old Town neighborhood, authorities said. The shooting happened about 6:15 p.m. in the 1300 block of North Sedgwick Street, police said. TyShawn Blanton, 31, was shot multiple times and died at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center … Read more →