The first homicide of 2016 in Chicago happened in the Grand Boulevard neighborhood about 2:20 a.m. on New Years Day, claiming the life of a 24-year-old man, one of at least five people to die in gun violence last week.
In that first reported homicide of the year, Deandre Holiday, 24, got into a fight with someone in the 4600 block of South St. Lawrence and that person pulled a gun and fired shots at 2:20 a.m. Friday, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. The shooter then ran away.
Holiday, of the 5100 block of South Indiana, was pronounced dead at the scene, according to the medical examiner’s office.
A second person, a 38-year-old man, was also struck by the gunfire and later showed up at Provident Hospital with a gunshot wound to the hand, police said. He was listed in good condition.
A 16-year-old boy died about seven hours after he was shot Saturday in the South Side Woodlawn neighborhood. Read more
At least 12 people died from violence during the Christmas holiday week in Chicago, including two men fatally shot on Christmas Day, and a 21-year-old woman whose body was found in a suitcase in a Far South Side alley.
Chicago Police also fatally shot two people while responding to a domestic violence call in the west Side Austin neighborhood, where four of the week’s earlier homicides took place.
The body of Dominique Ferguson was found in an alley Sunday in the Roseland neighborhood, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
She was found by kids playing in an alley in the 300 block of West 115th Street. The medical examiner’s office said results of an autopsy Monday were inconclusive, with results pending further investigation.
A man and a woman were killed in an Englewood neighborhood shooting early Sunday. Read more
At least 10 people were the victims of violent homicides last week in Chicago, including three men who were fatally shot on Thursday, and an elderly man who was shot when he answered his door on Sunday morning.
Fredell Bryant answered his door about 6 a.m. in the 5200 block of South Green in Back of the Yards, and was shot twice in the chest, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Bryant, 71, was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 6:51 a.m.
Less than an hour earlier, also in Back of the Yards, one man was killed and another hurt in a shooting. Read more
After a stretch of more than three days during which there were no homicides reported in the city, the week ended with three men fatally shot.
Two of them died over a violent weekend, during which at least 30 others were wounded in gunfire across the city.
The three fatalities marked the lowest homicide total for one week since two people were killed in the first week of the year, when two men were fatally shot during the week ending Jan. 4, marking the final homicide of 2014 and the first of this year. Read more
By JEFFMAYES
Homicide Watch Chicago At least seven people were fatally shot in Chicago last week, four of them during a violent weekend during which nearly 30 shootings were reported by police.
A 29-year-old man was shot and killed Sunday morning in the Back of the Yards neighborhood on the South Side.
Brandon Miles was in the driver’s seat of a car when someone opened fire from another car about 6:15 a.m. in the 1000 block of West 50th Street, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Miles was taken to Stroger Hospital with gunshot wounds to his back and neck, and later died there, authorities said.
A 25-year-old man was found with fatal gunshot wounds Saturday morning in Humboldt Park. Officers found Frankie Gutierrez unresponsive in the passenger’s seat just after 7 a.m. in the 800 block of North Avers, according to police and the medical examiner’s office.
Gutierrez was pronounced dead on the way to Mount Sinai Hospital. Read more
During a week when the city’s attention was captivated by the video of the police shooting of LaQuan McDonald, and the subsequent protests; at least 11 people were killed in violence in Chicago.
At least eight of those deaths occurred during a bloody Thanksgiving weekend during which nearly 30 people were shot. And a man is facing reckless homicide charges for a 12th death caused by what prosecutors called a DUI crash on the Dan Ryan Expressway.
A man was fatally shot Sunday night in the Englewood. Jimmy Jenkins, 28, was found unresponsive at 7:55 p.m. in a gangway in the 900 block of West 59th Street, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Jenkins, who lived in the 5900 block of South Morgan Street, had suffered multiple gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at the scene at 8:16 p.m., authorities said. Read more
At least seven people were the victims of gun violence in Chicago last week, but an eighth death that was at first called a homicide by Chicago Police has now been reclassified.
Police initially launched a homicide investigation after 23-year-old Quina L. Jackson died following a report of a domestic disturbance at her Chicago Lawn apartment Friday afternoon
Shortly after noon, officers were called to the building in the 6300 block of South Fairfield, where they found Jackson unresponsive on a couch, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. Jackson was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where she was died less than two hours later.
Police did not say how she died, and final autopsy results were pending further investigation. But on Sunday, police said they homicide investigation has been reclassified as an ongoing death investigation, and a 34-year-old woman taken into custody at the scene was released without charges.
A man died after he was shot Sunday evening in the West Side Austin neighborhood.
Tamar Moore, 35, was sitting in a vehicle parked in the 5400 block of West Race Avenue about 7:35 p.m. when someone walked up and started shooting, according to police and the medical examiner’s office. Read more
By JEFFMAYES
Homicide Watch Chicago 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 Wednesday night.
About 11:20 p.m., she was found in the yard in the 800 block of West Eastwood, the same block where the suspect lives, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
The baby was taken to nearby Weiss Memorial Hospital, where she was pronounced dead at 12:57 a.m.
Bond was denied Saturday for 19-year-old Mubashra Uddin, who police say gave birth to the girl, then dropped her from the 8th story of a high-rise.
Uddin faces faces first-degree murder charges, according to police.
A 25-year-old man was shot to death Saturday afternoon in the Rogers Park neighborhood on the North Side. Read more
By JEFFMAYES
Chicago Sun-Times Wire At least 9 people died in a violent early November week in Chicago, including a 9-year-old boy fatally shot in an alley in Auburn Gresham; and a 14-year-old boy shot down on a sidewalk in Gage Park.
The younger boy, Tyshawn Lee, was shot in an alley in the 8000 block of South Damen at 4:15 p.m. Monday, authorities said.
At a press conference at Chicago Police headquarters Monday night, Dean Andrews, chief of detectives, said the boy suffered multiple gunshot wounds to his upper body.
Andrews said an unknown number of people were arguing in the alley and gunfire followed. Tyshawn, who lived in the 2000 block of West 80th Street, was pronounced dead at the scene at 4:39 p.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Police Supt. Garry McCarthy later said that Tyshawn was targeted, lured to the alley and “executed” as retribution for his father’s gang activity.
The 14-year-old, J-Quantae Riles, was shot to death late Saturday in the Gage Park neighborhood after recently moving back to Chicago from Virginia. Read more
By JEFFMAYES
Chicago Sun-Times Wire At least six people were killed in violence in Chicago last week, including an 89-year-old woman who was beaten and stabbed to death in her apartment by someone who then set the building on fire, according to Chicago Police.
The elderly woman was found fatally stabbed after an apartment fire early Monday in the Washington Park neighborhood was later identified as Josephine Johnson.
She was found by firefighters about 2:50 a.m. in an apartment in a three-story building in the 5100 block of South Michigan, according to Fire Media Affairs and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
The fire appears to have started in her first-floor apartment, where she was found with multiple stab wounds, authorities said. The fire is thought to be suspicious in nature. Read more
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The first homicide of 2016 in Chicago happened in the Grand Boulevard neighborhood about 2:20 a.m. on New Years Day, claiming the life of a 24-year-old man, one of at least five people to die in gun violence last week. 
