18-year-old man shot in Ashburn

The shooting occurred on the 3700 block of West 82nd street in the Ashburn neighborhood at about 11:35 a.m.
An 18-year-old man with a gunshot wound to his right arm was transported to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn. His condition has since stabilized

16-year-old boy shot in Ashburn

About 4:35 p.m., a 16-year-old boy was shot in the leg in the 3400 block of West 79th Street in the Ashburn neighborhood on the Southwest Side. The boy was standing on the street when someone approached on foot and opened fire

26-year-old man shot in Ashburn

A 26-year-old man was shot early this morning in the Southwest Side's Ashburn neighborhood.
About 12:40 a.m., an unknown assailant  approached and started shooting as the man and two other people were standing in a gangway in the 2900 block of West Columbus Avenue.
The man sustained several gunshot wounds to the body and was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn. His condition was stabilized

Dad accused of trying to kill witnesses against son

A Chicago father was charged in federal court Thursday with trying to hire a hit man to kill two witnesses who were scheduled to testify against his son at the son’s upcoming murder trial.
A government informant tipped off law enforcement Sunday that Euripides Caguana had called him two days earlier and told the informant that he wanted the two witnesses killed by Saturday. He wanted to ensure they could not testify next week during the trial of his son Travis Caguana, 19, according to a federal complaint charging him with murder-for-hire.
The younger Caguana is accused of killing Dante Smallwood, 18, in June 2011 on the Southwest Side.
Caguana, 59, of the 3700 block of West 81st Place, and the informant met Monday at a Northwest Side restaurant to discuss the details of the hit. At that meeting near Addison Street and Pulaski Road, Caguana revealed that he had followed the two witnesses “around for some time to track their movements” .
Caguana told the person he had followed the witnesses for “some time’’ and handed over pictures of the men and notes on their movements.
The complaint states that, on Tuesday evening, Caguana asked during a recorded cell phone call, “Why don’t you come by the house?” The person he initially approached by Caguana replied, "I got dude (the hit man) on standby because he’s ready. You got ‘em, right [the money for the gun]?
“Yeah, yeah, we’re gonna do it. . .We’re gonna do it,’’ Caguana responded.
During the next few days, the person and an undercover officer posing as a hit man engaged in a series of recorded conversations and meetings.
Monday, the person met Caguana at his home and Caguana took money out of the trunk of a champagne-colored Toyota sedan and gave him $500 for the gun, according to the complaint. They discussed how he would pay $5,000 for one victim and $2,000 for the other.
They drove around in the car and visited the witnesses' homes before agreeing to get together the next day, Wednesday, to meet the “hit man’’ at Chase Park, at Clark Street and Leland Avenue.
At the park that morning, as law enforcement officers hid and watched, Caguana talked with the person and the undercover officer posing as the hit man.
Caguana told them, “This guy’s gotta go first’’. He also gave them details about what time the witnesses went to work. When the person offered to have them killed that day, Caguana replied, “We can do them both at the same time’’ .
They agreed that $2,000 was to be a “down payment'' and that Caguana would pay the balance after the first man was killed, according to the complaints. Caguana was arrested as they left in separate cars.
Caguana, of the 3700 block of West 81st Place in the Ashburn neighborhood, remains in federal custody pending a detention hearing next Wednesday.

Shootings in Chicago September 12, 2013

3 men shot in Marquette Park

At about 5:10 p.m., three men were shot in the 7100 block of South Rockwell Street, O'Brien said.
A 19-year-old man and a 23-year-old man were both taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn,. A third man, 35, was being treated at Holy Cross Hospital.
The three were on the street when someone came up and opened fire on the men, hitting them.
One man suffered a gunshot wound to the arm, another a gunshot wound to the leg. News Affairs did not have a breakdown of how each of the three men was wounded, or information on their conditions.

 14-year-old boy shot in Ashburn

At about 7:50 p.m., a 14-year-old boy was shot in the 7600 block of South Homan Avenue. The boy was approached by three young men wearing white and one shot him in the back. He was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center to be treated for the wound

Woman assaulted in vacant lot

Chicago Police are searching for a man who sexually assaulted a woman Friday night in the Ashburn area.
The woman, age 52, was walking in the 7900 block of South Western Avenue, on the border between the Wrightwood and Beverly View neighborhoods, when a man approached her. The man pulled the woman into a vacant lot and forced her to take off her clothes about 8:46 p.m..
There was no weapon displayed during the attack.
The attacker is described as a 35- to 40-year-old black male, standing 5-foot-8 and weighing about 200 pounds. He has brown eyes and braided black hair as well as a tattoo on the right side of his neck.
At the time, the attacker was wearing a white T-shirt, black pants and black gym shoes.
Police ask that anyone with information about the incident call Area Central Detectives at 312-747-8380.

Boy, 15, shot multiple times in Ashburn neighborhood

A 15-year-old boy was wounded multiple times Wednesday night in a shooting on the city's Southwest Side.
A gunman opened fire on the teen in the 3300 block of West 83rd Street in the Ashburn neighborhood just before 9 p.m. Wednesday, police said. The boy, wounded as many as four times, ran a half block to the 8100 block of South Spaulding Avenue before he collapsed.
The boy was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn in critical condition, though police said his condition had stabilized by late Wednesday.
The teen told police that he heard gunshots and suddenly felt pain in his back and buttocks.
While the boy denied having any gang ties, police believe he belongs to a faction of the Gangster Disciples street gang that is at odds with a separate faction. Officers in the area were monitoring gang activity, trying to quell any retaliation.

Man shot when gunman fires in Ashburn garage

Someone stuck a pistol under a garage door in the Ashburn neighborhood and started shooting at the people inside, wounding a 22-year-old man Friday night.
 He was in the 3800 block of West 83rd Street and was shot in the stomach, back and leg about 8 p.m.
 The man, described by police as “not the most cooperative victim,” was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center, where his condition had been stabilized.

Man shot in Ashburn UPDATE: DOA

A man was shot on the 3400 block of West 83rd Street about midnight. His age wasn't available but he was taken in critical condition to Advocate Christ Medical Center. He was in surgery as of about 2 a.m.
UPDATE:
A 28-year-old man was pronounced dead this afternoon several days after being found shot in an Ashburn alley.
Leon Poe of the 3100 block of West 84th Place was pronounced dead at 1:30 p.m. at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn

Three people shot in Ashburn

Three people were shot on the 8300 block of South Homan Avenue about 9:10 p.m.
Two 14-year-old girls were shot in the leg and a man, described as 25-30 years old, was shot in the chest.
All three were taken to Stroger Hospital.

14-year-old boy shot in Ashburn

At 7:32 p.m., a 14-year-old boy was shot in the upper right leg and was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center where he was stabilized.
The shooting happened on the 3800 block of West Pippin Street