Homicide Watch Chicago

By ZOË FISHER Homicide Watch Chicago Taylor Flowers, 23, celebrated her golden birthday just a few weeks before her death on March 18. Her sister, Tamara Allen, remembered how excited Flowers was for her “Jordan year,” the birthday based on Michael Jordan’s jersey number. Birthdays were an exciting time in the household growing up with … Read more →

By JEFF MAYES Chicago Sun-Times Wire At least 12 people died from violence in Chicago last week, including four men fatally shot on primary election day. Three of the victims died days or weeks after being shot, including a woman who died four days after being wounded by a man in a domestic murder-suicide. The … Read more →

By SIMONE ALICEA Chicago Sun-Times Wire Taylor Flowers died four days after she was shot during a hostage situation Friday in the Chicago Lawn neighborhood in which her killer then took his own life. Officers responded to a domestic incident at 2:23 p.m. in the 3000 block of West 60th Street, according to Chicago Police. … Read more →