Homicide Watch Chicago

By JARED LANDSMAN and TRISTAN SIMS Homicide Watch Chicago Sixteen people were killed throughout Chicago last week, 11 of them over a violent Independence Day weekend,when the victims included a 7-year-old boy hot while watching fireworks in Humboldt Park on Saturday. Seven-year-old Amari Brown, who lived in the 500 block of North Drake, and a … Read more →

By RUMMANA HUSSAIN Chicago Sun-Times A West Garfield Park man strangled his live-in girlfriend Vanessa V. Taylor, then confessed to killing her on Facebook, Cook County prosecutors said Thursday. James E. Thomas went into his victim’s Facebook account and wrote, “My girlfriend was part of the mob. She came to kill me, so I killed … Read more →

A man has been charged with murder for strangling Vanessa V. Taylor in her West Garfield Park home earlier this week, a murder discovered by police after her roommate posted on social media that he had killed her. James E. Thomas, 49, was charged with one county of first-degree murder and one count of aggravated … Read more →

By ASHLEE REZIN and LEEANN SHELTON Chicago Sun-Times Wire Vanessa V. Taylor was found strangled early Tuesday in her West Garfield Park neighborhood apartment after her roommate posted on social media that he had killed her, police sources said. About 2:30 a.m., officers performing a well-being check in the third-floor apartment in the 4300 block … Read more →