Homicide Watch Chicago

By LUKE WILUSZ Chicago Sun-Times Wire Bond was set at $2.5 million Friday for a man charged with shooting Rashawn Gooden Jr. to death in February outside a convenience store in the West Side Austin neighborhood. Michael Dukes, 21, is charged with one count of first-degree murder for shooting the 22-year-old on the morning of … Read more →

By JEFF MAYES Chicago Sun-Times Wire At least nine people were killed in violence in Chicago last week, though one of the deaths is being treated an accident; and the body of a 10th victim was found after he’d been missing by his family for almost two months. A 33-year-old man died Sunday morning, about … Read more →

Rashawn Gooden Jr. was coming out of a business Tuesday morning in the Austin neighborhood when he was fatally shot. The 21-year-old Gooden was exiting a business in the 4900 block of West Division at 9:05 a.m. when several shots were fired, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. Gooden, of … Read more →