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 →

The Fourth of July weekend turned into an explosion of violence across Chicago, where shootings left 10 people dead — including a 7-year-old boy — and at least 53 others injured from Thursday evening to early Monday. Seven-year-old Amari Brown was killed in a shooting that also left a 26-year-old woman wounded late Saturday in … Read more →

Joseph Gutierrez was riding his bicycle in the Little Village neighborhood Thursday evening when a gunman on foot fatally shot him. About 6:25 p.m., the 20-year-old Gutierrez was riding his bike in the 2700 block of South Karlov when a gunman ran up and shot him repeatedly in the upper body, police said. Gutierrez, of … Read more →