16-year-old boy shot dead in Bronzville

A 16-year-old boy has died following a shooting on the South Side this morning.
The victim was shot about 5:50 a.m. in the 500 block of East 38^th Place.
He was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital where he died of his injuries

2 men shot in Bronzeville

A man in his 50s was one of two people critically injured in a shooting in the 200 block of East 35th Street in The Gap neighborhood on the South Side.Police said the two men were walking down the sidewalk near the entrance of a submarine sandwich restaurant when they became involved in an argument with a third person. The third person took out a gun and opened fire, striking the 55-year-old in the chest and his 25-year-old companion several times.
The two men were listed in critical condition at Mercy Hospital and were expected to be transferred to John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County.

23-year-old man shot dead in Bronzeville

The fatal shooting happened about 4:10 a.m. Saturday in the 4500 block of Indiana Avenue in the Bronzeville neighborhood on the South Side. Police said two male shooters stepped out of a dark-colored sedan and opened fire on a 23-year-old man walking on the sidewalk.
The man was identified as Craig Williams who lived in the block where he was shot. Williams was struck multiple times but managed to run to a vacant lot before collapsing. He died on the scene.

27-year-old man shot in Bronzeville

About 1:35 a.m., a 27-year-old man was shot in the leg in the 4700 block of South St. Lawrence Avenue in the Bronzeville neighborhood on the South Side. The man was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where his condition was stabilized.

15-year-old shot in leg on South Side

A 15-year-old boy was shot a block from a Bronzeville high school this afternoon.
The boy was taken to Comer Children's Hospital with a gunshot wound to his right leg following the shooting about 2:48 p.m. in the 3800 block of South Calumet Avenue. His condition was stabilized at the hospital.
The boy was walking on the sidewalk when a man or boy came up and fired two shots at him, hitting him once, then fleeing.
No one was in custody.
The block where the boy was shot is a block east of Wendell Phillips Academy High School, 244 E. Pershing Road.

DNA evidence links Alsip man to sexual assault on South Side

An Alsip man has been charged in connection with the sexual assault of a 15-year-old girl after DNA evidence linked him to the South Side attack.
Arteria Austin Jr., 23, of the 4100 block of West 127th Street was charged this afternoon with one count of aggravated criminal sexual assault.
The charge stems from a Nov. 9 attack that occurred on the 5100 block of South Wabash Avenue. According to police crime data, the assault happened in a hallway or porch of a residence.
Austin was arrested Tuesday after he was identified as the attacker through DNA evidence

30-year-old man shot in Bronzeville

A 30-year-old man was shot in the calf in the 4700 block of South Indiana Avenue about 9:55 p.m. Authorities found him in an apartment on that block with the wound and he was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in good condition. 

Chicago attorney, nephew charged in sexual assault

A real estate attorney at a major Chicago law firm and his nephew were charged with sexually assaulting an 18-year-old man who told authorities he blacked out after consuming one-and-a-half drinks at the attorney's South Side home last week.
Bail was set at $150,000 each for Stanley Stallworth, 50, a partner at Sidley Austin for more than 20 years, and his nephew, Therrie Miller, 22, of Dolton.
The alleged victim told authorities he met Miller at a South Holland barbershop on Nov. 27 and that the next day Miller texted him and asked if he wanted to hang out at his uncle's homeDibler.
At Stallworth's Bronzeville home in the 3300 block of South Calumet Avenue, the teen alleged he was pressured into consuming a drink. After drinking one and part of another, he lost consciousness and woke up to find Miller performing a sex act on him. The teen alleged he tried to fight off the assault but then Stallworth performed a sex act on him as well.
He lost consciousness again and awoke the next morning naked, Dibler said. After being driven home by Miller, the teen told his mother about the alleged attack and went to Franciscan St. Margaret Health hospital.

Bronzeville shooting injures 2

A shooting in the Bronzeville neighborhood left two men injured early this morning.
The men, who are 19 and 21, were walking in the 4700 block of South Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive when shots rang out about 1:25 a.m.
Bullets struck the younger man in the abdomen and the older man in the arm. A friend drove them to John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County, where their conditions were stabilized.

21-year-old man shot in Bronzeville

About 10:35 p.m., a 21-year-old man was shot in the lower right leg in the 5100 block of South Calumet Avenue. The man was taken to John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County, where his condition was stabilized.

23-year-old man shot in Bronzeville

About 6:45 p.m. in the Bronzeville neighborhood, a 23-year-old man was shot in the lower left leg in what may have been a drive-by shooting in the 4300 block of South Prairie Avenue. His condition had been stabilized at the University of Chicago Medical Center

Man charged with murder in September stabbing

A 29-year-old Ida B. Wells / Darrow Homes resident is accused of stabbing a neighbor to death inside her apartment in September.
Chandus Ousley, of the 3500 S. Rhodes Avenue.
He’s accused of stabbing a 24-year-old woman to death, and she was found inside her apartment on the same block.

Police warn of South, Southwest Side robberies refuse to ID race of offenders

Police issued robbery warnings for the South and Southwest sides tonight after 5 robberies in those areas the last few days.
On the Southwest Side, police warned of three robberies between Oct. 31 and Nov. 2.
The robber is “generally described” as a 20-25 year old man between 5-foot-8 and 6-foot weighing between 150 ad 215 pounds, according . In the robberies, the man either showed a handgun or implied that he had one.
Police say he robbed people in the 2800 block of West 62nd Street on Oct. 29 about 3:40 a.m., the 6300 block of South Washtenaw about 5:45 a.m. the next day, and the 2700 block of West 63rd Street about 1:22 p.m. the day after that.
The three locations are all within two blocks of each other in the Chicago Lawn and Marquette Park neighborhoods.
On the South Side in The Gap neighborhood – three blocks from Chicago Police Department headquarters – two robberies happened on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive.
Police described the attackers as men between the ages of 17 and 30 years old, weighing 140 to 210 pounds, between 5-foot-7 and 5-foot-11. Each of the pair showed handguns during the robberies before going through pockets and belongings.
The robberies happened in the 3400 block of South King Drive about 6 p.m. on Nov. 1 and the 3300 block of South King Drive on Nov. 3 about 10:40 a.m.

Shootings in Chicago November 4, 2013

Offender shot by victim during robbery

A man suspected of robbery who was shot by his intended victim was arrested overnight in Hammond.
The attack happened in the 2900 block of West Devon Avenue in the West Rogers Park neighborhood about 5:40 p.m.
The robbery suspect, 25, was taken into custody in the Indiana town of about 80,000 people just over the border from Chicago. He had walked into Franciscan St. Margaret Health hospital seeking treatment for gunshot wounds.
Also not clear is whether the robbery suspect was shot with his own weapon during a struggle or whether his victim used a different weapon. A 23-year-old man was also pistol whipped during the incident and taken to St. Francis Hospital in Evanston

22-year-old shot during robbery in Austin

About 8:40 p.m., a 22-year-old was shot in the Austin neighborhood during a robbery. He walked into Loretto Hospital and told police he had been shot near the intersection of Jackson and Lotus avenues. He’s in good condition

28-year-old man shot in Lawndale

At about 7:13 p.m., a 28-year-old man was shot on the 1600 block of South Homan Avenue in the Lawndale neighborhood. The man was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital where his condition had stabilized

24-year-old man shot in Austin

At 6:33 p.m., a 24-year-old man was shot on the 800 block of North Lavergne in the South Austin neighborhood, Hernandez said. The man was shot in the neck and was taken in serious-to-critical condition to Mount Sinai Hospital

21-year-old man shot in Bronzeville

At  6:09 p.m., a 21-year-old man was also critically injured in a shooting. That shooting happened on the 5000 block of South Cottage Grove Avenue in the Bronzeville neighborhood. The victim was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital for treatment.

23-year-old man shot in Gresham

The shooting happened at 5:06 p.m. on the 8700 block of South Racine Avenue in the Gresham neighborhood. A 23-year-old man was taken in critical condition to Advocate Christ Medical Center

Shots fired at Safe Passage worker on South Side

A Chicago Public Schools Safe Passage monitor was the victim of an attempted drive-by shooting as she was working on her South Side route Tuesday morning.
The 36-year-old woman, dressed in a bright yellow vest, was monitoring a Mollison Elementary School Safe Passage route near 47th Street and Wabash Avenue about 9 a.m. Tuesday when a black Audi pulled up, drove past and then backed up. One of the car windows rolled down and several shots were fired from inside the car before the vehicle sped off.
After ducking for cover, the woman, who was not injured, reported the incident first to her Safe Passage employer, Bright Star Community Outreach, and then to police. Police interviewed two witnesses to the incident, including another Safe Passage monitor. The Safe Passage witness is hearing-impaired and did not hear gunfire, but the second witness reported hearing the shots.
The woman told police that she earlier was moved from another Safe Passage route because of an ongoing dispute with her estranged husband, a reputed Gangster Disciple

Man fatally stabbed during fight with suspect's son over card game

A Bronzeville man was stabbed to death when the man now charged with his murder tried to break up a fight over a card game involving the victim and the son of the suspect.
Timothy Barber, 40, has been charged with second-degree murder in the death early Aug. 30 of Lamont Larkins, 24, of the 4000 block of South Calumet Indiana Avenue. Barber was sentenced in 1993 to 20 years in prison after he pled guilty in connection with a murder for which he was originally charged in 1988.
Barber and his son were playing a game of spades for money with Larkins and another person at a home in the 4000 block of South Calumet Avenue, when a dispute over allegations of cheating arose among Larkins, Barber and Barber’s son, and Larkins and Barber’s son started fighting.
Larkins punched Barber’s son in the nose, and the tussle ended up in the home’s yard, with Barber and other friends trying to pull the two men apart. Barber pulled out a knife and stabbed Larkins in the arm, back, and face, with the knife puncturing his chest.
The victim was found stabbed in an alley in the 4000 block of South Calumet Avenue a little before 12:40 a.m. that day.
Police were called to the scene because of a person who had been stabbed, and arrived on scene to find the victim on the ground.
Witnesses identified Barber as the person who had stabbed Larkins, and when interviewed by police, he admitted he had stabbed Larkins, and Larkins had not been armed at the time.
Barber was identified as the person who stabbed the victim, and he was arrested Sunday at his home in the 200 block of East 135th Place

Police investigating South Side woman's death as a homicide

Police have started a homicide investigation after the death of a 23-year-old woman found unresponsive in her South Side home.
Authorities found the woman at 7:12 p.m. Monday inside a residence in the 3500 block of South Rhodes Avenue.
She died on the scene.

Mother found not guilty, insane in attacks

A mentally ill woman who stabbed her infant daughter 10 times in the face with a pair of scissors before boarding a crowded CTA bus and stabbing a woman and her young daughter was found not guilty by reason of insanity Friday.
Nancy Laroche, 34, who was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, was found by her fiance's mother kneeling over her crying 10-month-old daughter on Jan. 9, 2008, at their Bronzeville apartment.
The girl, who was lying faceup on the bathroom floor, had been stabbed in her face and eyes.
"(Laroche) was saying a sound, but I didn't understand what she was saying," Laroche's fiance's mother, Sylvia Murray, testified.
When Murray confronted her, Laroche went out the front door of their apartment building in the 4700 block of South Indiana Avenue. Laroche ran up to a crowded CTA bus that had just left its stop near 47th and State streets about 7 a.m. and got on without paying, still carrying the scissors.
"The bus became an uproar," driver Shalant Cannon testified.
Ninette Swain, a receptionist, was sitting behind Cannon, taking her 3-year-old daughter to day care before going to work. Swain said Laroche looked right at her, yelled, "Get off the bus!" and brought her hand down on Swain's face, knocking off her glasses. Laroche then went to the back of the bus — waving her arms and stabbing the air — before a passenger shoved her away, and she ended up back near Swain. Laroche then stabbed Swain's daughter near her right eye.
"Everybody was screaming. The baby is bleeding," Swain testified. "That's when I noticed I was bleeding as well, and everybody started running off the bus."
Prosecutors said Laroche tried to take control of the bus but was unsuccessful. She then picked up Swain's daughter and threw her off the bus.
On Friday, Judge Kevin Sheehan found Laroche not guilty of attempted first-degree murder and attempted vehicular hijacking and found her not guilty by reason of insanity on the remaining 14 counts of aggravated battery. He remanded Laroche to a secure Department of Human Services inpatient center for a mental health evaluation.
In 2011, Sheehan found Laroche not guilty by reason of insanity of assaulting two police officers at the Area 1 police station after being taken into custody.

Man stabbed to death in Bronzeville

A  man in his 20s was stabbed to death in the Bronzeville neighborhood early Friday morning.
The 24-year-old man was found bleeding around 12:40 a.m. in the 4000 block of South Indiana Avenue.
The man was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital and pronounced dead there about 1:40 a.m.

Shootings in Chicago August 27, 28 2013

Woman shot on the West Side

A  25-year-old woman was hospitalized in critical condition today after being shot on the West Side this afternoon.
The shooting happened about 1:41 p.m. on the 3300 block of West Harrison Avenue in the Homan Square neighborhood.
The woman was leaving a Citgo gas station on that block when she and another woman got into an argument which ended up in the victim being shot.
The victim may be pregnant.
The victim was shot in the abdomen and was taken to John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County in critical condition

2 people shot in Englewood

Two people were shot tonight in the Englewood neighborhood on the South SideDepartment.
Paramedics were called about 9:50 p.m. to the 5500 block of South Shields Avenue where two people had been shot.
One victim was taken by ambulance to John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County in serious-to-critical condition while the other victim got to the University of Chicago Hospital by other means.
The person taken to Stroger was a man who had been shot in the knee and finger and his condition had stabilized

Man shot in Englewood

A man in his 40s was injured this morning in a shooting in the Englewood neighborhood.
The shooting happened on the 6700 block of South Loomis Boulevard at about 10:10 a.m.
The man was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in good condition after being shot in the leg

 24-year-old man shot in Humboldt Park

In the Humboldt Park neighborhood, a 24-year-old man was shot in the hip Tuesday night about 9 p.m. during a gang related incident in the 1500 block of North St. Louis Avenue.
Alfaro said the victim was with a friend when he encountered a group of rival gang members on the street. A fight began and one in the group produced a gun and fired shots.
The victim was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in good condition

Man shot in Avalon Park

An shooting happened shortly after 8 p.m. on the 8200 block of South Avalon Avenue.
Preliminary reports said a man in his 30s was shot in the chest.

18-year-old man shot in McKinley Park

 18-year-old man was shot about 5:25 p.m. on the 3700 block of South Honore Street.
Preliminary reports said an 18-year-old man was standing on the street when two males approached on bicycles, and one of the males shot him in the upper left chest area.
The man was taken to Stroger Hospital where his condition was stabilized.

Person shot in Bronzeville

At about 2:38 p.m., a person was shot on the 3900 block of South Cottage Grove Avenue.
a 26-year-old man was shot in both legs in the 3900 block of South Cottage Grove Avenue. He was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where his condition had stabilized.

Person Shot in Englewood

Someone was shot about 11 p.m. near 64th Street and Hoyne Avenue in the Englewood neighborhood. A 22-year-old man was shot in the neck about 11 p.m. near 64th Street and Hoyne Avenue. He's in stable condition at Advocate Christ Medical Center. Someone walked up and shot him, but the man told police he doesn't remember what happened.