Homicide Watch Chicago

By MITCHELL ARMENTROUT Chicago Sun-Times Wire Bond was set at $250,000 Saturday for a 22-year-old woman charged with being part of a group that beat Victor Ramirez to death last summer in Little Village on the Southwest Side. Miriam Romero is the second person charged with murder for the Aug.31, 2014 attack that left the … Read more →

Alvardo Perez / Photo from Chicago Police BY MICHAEL LANSU Homicide Watch Chicago Editor Alvardo Perez was ordered held on $1 million bond Tuesday after prosecutors said he was part of a group that beat Victor Ramirez to death in the Little Village neighborhood. Ramirez was walking in the 4100 block of West 26th Street … Read more →

Victor Ramirez died after being beaten and run over by a car in the Little Village neighborhood early Sunday. Ramirez, 23, was walking in the 4100 block of West 26th Street when a group in two passing sport-utility vehicles began yelling gang slogans at him about 5:30 a.m. Sunday, authorities said. A fight ensued and … Read more →

BY MICHAEL LANSU Homicide Watch Chicago Editor Nine people were murdered throughout Chicago last week, including two beating deaths and one fatal stabbing. Both of the beatings happened over the holiday weekend, when three people were shot to death and at least 33 others were wounded by gunfire. The most recent murder happened when a … Read more →