Azun Buckner was fatally shot in the Englewood neighborhood Friday afternoon.
Officers responding to a call of shots fired in the 7000 block of South Normal Avenue found Azun Buckner shot multiple times about 2 p.m. Friday, authorities said.
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Howard Hunt / Photo from Chicago Police
A 58-year-old man was charged with murder Friday is the domestic-related stabbing death of Joyce A. Terrell this week in the South Shore neighborhood, authorities said.
Howard Hunt was charged with first-degree murder in the stabbing death of the 28-year-old woman their home, police said.
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Jerome Anderson was fatally shot near Washington Park Friday morning.
Anderson, 22, was walking in the 5800 block of South King Drive when a gold vehicle pulled up and gunman got out and opened fire at 11:33 a.m., authorities said.
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Scene where DuJuane Hall was fatally shot / Photo by Paul Marik
A 16-year-old boy was fatally shot in the Chicago Lawn neighborhood Wednesday night.
DuJuane Hall was shot in the shoulder in the 3000 block of West 71st Street about 6:20 p.m. Wednesday, authorities said.
After being shot, DuJuane ran into a backyard and collapsed, authorities said.
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Stephon Gills / Photo from Chicago Police
BY RUMMANA HUSSAIN
Chicago Sun-Times
Stephon Gill was angry rivals jumped a fellow Latin Styler gang member while the pal was with his child.
So Gill went into a Belmont Cragin neighborhood Dunkin’ Donuts a few weeks later and killed one of the culprits as he bolted outside the shop, prosecutors said.
Gill, 21, was ordered held without bail Thursday for the fatal shooting of Edgar Muneton on March 25.
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Charles Gray was fatally shot in the West Englewood neighborhood early Thursday.
Gray, 36, got into an argument in the 2100 block of West 71st Place and the other person pulled a gun and opened fired about 2:05 a.m., authorities said.
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Gerald A. Watson fatally stabbed Susan Mangino-Watson then turned the knife on himself in what police are calling a domestic murder-suicide Tuesday afternoon in the Avondale neighborhood, authorities said.
The bodies were discovered in their home in the 2800 block of North Maplewood Avenue about 12:10 p.m. Tuesday, authorities said.
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A 16-year-old boy was shot to death in the West Englewood neighborhood Tuesday morning.
Police found Savon Davis lying on the ground in the 1200 block of West 57th Street about 10:10 a.m. Tuesday, authorities said.
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BY MICHAEL LANSU
Homicide Watch Chicago
After consecutive years of record low murder totals, killings rose nearly 30 percent compared to the first quarter of 2014.
The 80 murders through the first three months of the year is the highest first quarter murder total since since 117 people were slain in the first three months of 2012, according to Chicago Police data.
After the unusually violent 2012, murders fell 47 percent in the first three months of 2013. The 62 killings in the first quarter of 2014 were the fewest slayings during that span since 1958.
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Angelo Bennett / Photo from Cook County Sheriff’s office
BY RUMMANA HUSSAIN
Chicago Sun-Times
An Austin man was convicted Tuesday of gunning down a Far South Side gentleman’s club manager and wounding the victim’s fiancée after a traffic dispute on Goose Island.
Charles E. Jones’ friends and family applauded when Cook County Judge Carol Howard found Angelo Bennett guilty of murder and attempted murder for the May 26, 2013, incident.
Bennett claimed he shot Jones in self defense.
The judge said Jones, 42, shouldn’t have beaten Bennett in the head after Jones’ Maserati and Bennett’s Buick LaCrosse collided, but she believed the fight was over when Bennett decided to grab his .38-caliber revolver and shoot Jones twice in the face, killing him.
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