Man attacked woman at West Side bus stop

A Humboldt Park man faces felony charges after prosecutors say he attacked a woman at a West Side bus stop.
Kyle D. Hill, 28, of the 1200 block of North Kostner Avenue, is charged with aggravated criminal sexual abuse, criminal sexual abuse and misdemeanor possession of marijuana.
On Dec. 26, Hill jumped out of a van near a CTA bus stop at 4759 W. Chicago Ave. and grabbed a 32-year-old woman. Hill pinned down her arms and molested her.
Witnesses helped the woman get away, called 911 and held Hill until police arrived, he said. In a search during Hill's arrest, police found marijuana.

2 shot in Humboldt Park

Someone in a ski mask shot up an "impromptu memorial" Monday afternoon near the site of an earlier gang killing wounding two young men in the Humboldt Park neighborhood.
The first shooting, in the 300 block of North St. Louis Avenue in Humboldt Park, left 18-year-old and 21-year-old men wounded; both were taken to John H. Stroger, Jr.  Hospital of Cook County. The two were at the memorial for Ramon Colon, shot on March 6 at the intersection of St. Louis and Hirsch, when shots were fired from a Volvo SUV, hitting the younger man in the buttocks and the older man in the leg. It’s not clear how many people inside the SUV fired shots; several were wearing ski masks.
No one is in custody in connection with that shooting

27-year-old man shot dead in Humboldt Park

A 27-year-old man was killed in the Gage Park neighborhood around 2:55 a.m. The man was shot near 53rd Street and Talman Avenue after someone opened fire as he got out of a parked car.
The 27-year-old fled to an alley and collapsed. He was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead

Woman shot in Humboldt Park home invasion

A woman was shot in the abdomen during a home invasion in the Humboldt Park neighborhood on the West Side Wednesday afternoon.
The woman, 20, was inside her apartment in the 1000 block of North Springfield Avenue when someone knocked on the door and then kicked it in about 3 p.m.
The man was looking for someone else, police and shot her in the abdomen before leaving. 
She was taken to John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County and was expected to survive.

Man escaped cops by leaving toddlers in West Side roadway

A  man who prosecutors say evaded police in August by placing two toddlers in the middle of a busy West Humboldt Park street was ordered held on $100,000 bail Saturday.
Prosecutors said Lance Harris, 25, was holding a 3-year-old’s hand and carrying a 2-year-old while walking along the 1200 block of North Pulaski Road on Aug. 19. When police officers recognized Harris and approached to arrest him on a warrant, he put the children in the street. As Harris escaped, the children were just 40 or so feet from a CTA bus and a dump truck on the arterial road.
The children apparently weren’t injured, and officers caught up to Harris on Thursday when he was arrested on two felony charges of child endangerment.
Harris was taken into custody at his apartment in the 4000 block of West Crystal Street, about a quarter-mile from where he left the toddlers in the roadway, according to court records. In addition to the child endangerment charges and two warrants, Harris is also accused of criminal trespassing, resisting a police officer and telephone harassment.

Police warn of man who attacked 2 teens on West Side

Police issued a community alert this morning warning the public about a man who grabbed--and in one incident, sexually abused--two teens on the city's West Side this week.
About 5:15 p.m. Monday, a 17-year-old girl was walking north on the 1700 block of North Pulaski Road after she exited a bus on North Avenue. A man approached her from behind, placed his hand over her mouth and forced her toward an alley.
The man fondled the girl, but fled the scene when she started to scream and fight back.
Tuesday about 7:10 p.m., a 19-year-old woman got off a bus near North and Grand avenues and started walking westbound on Grand. A man approached her from behind and placed his hands around her neck, forcing her to the ground. When a passing car distracted the man, the woman began to fight and he fled the scene.
The man was described as Hispanic and between the ages of 20 and 25. He is between 5 feet to 5 feet, 3 inches tall and weighs between 120 and 130 pounds. He was last seen wearing a red, white and black beanie hat with ear flaps and hanging strings. He also was wearing a black puffy jacket and black pants,

2 accused of stealing mail

Two men are expected in court later today, accused of stealing bundles of mail from a mail carrier in the Humboldt Park neighborhood.
John Merritt, 29, of the 1500 block of Clarence Avenue in west suburban Berwyn, and Kevin Jones, 34, of the 3800 block of West Ohio Street on the city’s West Side, were both charged with felony theft. Jones was also wanted on a traffic warrant.
Tuesday about 3 p.m. in the 2900 block of West Division Street, a witness told police he saw Merritt standing near a mail carrier while Jones was looking around “as if to see who was watching’’ .
A few minutes later, the witness saw the two -- including Merritt holding packages of mail -- running westbound on Division Street before jumping in a green Chevrolet Cavalier in the 1100 block of North Richmond Street.
The witness called police and officers found the car and pulled it over in the 1600 block of North Kimball Avenue. Merritt and Jones were taken to the Shakespeare District police station and police found several bundles of mail addressed to people in the 60622 zip code inside a dark blue bag they were seen dumping out of the car before police stopped it,

Shootings in Chicago October 19, 20 2013

14-year-old boy shot in South Shore

At about 1:30 p.m. in the South Side's South Shore neighborhood, someone shot a 14-year-old boy in the arm as he stood on the sidewalk in the 2100 block of East 68th Place.
The boy was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn. He has since been released.

 16-year-old boy shot in Humboldt Park

A 16-year-old boy was shot about 4 p.m. in the 1000 block of North Ridgeway Avenue, in the West Side's Humboldt Park neighborhood.
Police said the boy was shot in the forearm and taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was listed in good condition.

2 men shot in West Pullman

A 30-year-old man was critically hurt when someone opened fire during a dispute involving a cell phone early this morning in the Far South Side's West Pullman neighborhood.
About 1:30 a.m., someone opened fire on a porch in the 11600 block of South Harvard Avenue, striking the man multiple times.
A witness told police at the scene he heard about seven or eight shots.
Shortly after the shooting, which happened on the east side of a southbound one-way street, police took a 34-year-old man into custody as a possible suspect. The shooting happened after a party during a dispute about the 34-year-old's phone.
Police said the shooter and the man shot may have known each other.
The 30-year-old was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was listed in critical condition.
The 34-year-old man taken into custody was treated for a graze wound to the ankle. It was not immediately clear whether the wound was self-inflicted or whether someone else fired the shot.
The 34-year-old, who was taken to Roseland Community Hospital in custody, has not been charged.

31-year-old man shot in Pilsen

A 31-year-old man was shot while driving his vehicle in the Pilsen neighborhood, police said.
The shooting happened about 5:15 a.m in the 900 block of West 19th Street. The man was taken with a gunshot wound to the leg to the University of Illinois Medical Center at Chicago, where his condition was stabilized.

Charges filed after woman's body found in forest preserve

A  19-year-old Humboldt Park neighborhood man was charged Friday night with killing the mother of his child and hiding her body in a plastic container in a forest preserve in River Forest.
The victim was identified this morning as Jasmin Salas, 20, of the 800 block of North Richmond Street.
Justino Correa, of the 1000 block of North Richmond Street, was charged with first-degree murder and concealing a homicide.
Police officers responding to a battery report arrived at Norwegian-American Hospital Thursday night where they spoke with Correa who told them he’d suffered a cut to his right hand during domestic fight with the mother of his child.
Correa told officers that during the fight he killed her, placed her in a box, and put her in the forest preserve.
Correa was arrested at Norwegian-American Hospital Thursday at 7:55 p.m. It is his first arrest.
A Police News Affairs statement said the victim is his 20-year-old girlfriend.
An autopsy Friday by the medical examiner's office determined Salas died of multiple combined stab and incise wounds and her death was ruled a homicide.
The remains had been found at 8100 Chicago Avenue in River Forest Thursday night, about 10 p.m. Thursday

Charges filed against West Side gang

In the second major gang sweep in two weeks, federal and local authorities announced Wednesday a crackdown on the Imperial Insane Vice Lords, a violent West Side gang, with the arrests of nearly three dozen leaders and members for a murder, an attempted murder and almost two decades of drug trafficking.
Among those charged was the gang's reputed "king," Nathaniel Hoskins, 45, who was accused of ordering the April 2011 murder of drug rival Marcus Hurley in West Humboldt Park. The gang henchman who allegedly carried out the killing, Andre Brown, was himself fatally shot in June 2012.
Hoskins was arrested at O'Hare International Airport on Tuesday as he was boarding a flight to Las Vegas, where he has a second home.  Prosecutors will seek to continue to detain him and a number of his co-defendants at hearings next week.
Hoskins and nine other defendants were charged with federal racketeering conspiracy. Hoskins and 23 other members of the gang were also charged with drug conspiracy for allegedly running an open-air market on the West Side that peddled heroin, cocaine and marijuana. Nine others face state charges in Cook County.
According to the indictment, the gang used violence to control its drug markets. Authorities alleged three high-ranking gang members — Torrie King, 37; Julian Martin, 28, and Raymond Myles, 39 — plotted the murder of an individual in May 2011, but the killing was not carried out. Another gang leader, Joseph Faulkner, 40, was charged with ordering the January 2010 shooting of an unnamed victim who was wounded but survived the attack.
Court records show that two decades ago, Hoskins and Faulkner were charged in the 1993 murder of Jerome Lucious on the West Side. Hoskins fled to Las Vegas, where he was arrested in 2005 living under an alias, records show. The murder charges were eventually dropped against Hoskins, while Faulkner was found not guilty by a Cook County judge.
Late last month, the leader and several other members of the Hobos street gang were charged in connection with several homicides, including the 2006 killing of a police informant.

Man dies 15 months after being found beaten on West Side

A man found beaten in the West Humboldt Park neighborhood last year died early Thursday after being hospitalized since his injuries.
Heliodoro Gill, 53, was declared dead at 4:12 a.m. Thursday at St. Francis Hospital in Evanston.
Police were called to the 1500 block of North Kedvale about 3:30 a.m. on June 19, 2012, and found the victim on the ground, bleeding from the head
Investigators were able to determine little of what happened, except that it appeared the victim had been struck from  behind with a weapon, police said. Although the medical examiner’s office said Gill lived in the 4200 block of West Armitage Avenue, police records indicate the victim was found outside his home.

Shootings in Chicago September 21, 22, 2013

16-year-old girl shot in Gresham

A  16-year-old girl was wounded when gunman fired into a South Side park.
The girl was standing with other people inside a park in the 1200 block of West 92nd Street when two gunmen came out of an alley and opened fire . She was struck in the arm and taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where her condition was stabilized.

22-year-old man shot in Englewood

At about about 5:20 p.m. in the South Side's Englewood neighborhood.
In the 6900 block of South Racine Avenue, someone on a bicycle shot a 22-year-old man as he was sitting on a porch. The man was struck in the calf and taken to Holy Cross Hospital, where he was listed in good condition.

19-year-old man shot in Englewood

In the 1200 block of West 69th Street, a 19-year-old man was shot in his right hand and left hip.

40-year-old man shot in Humboldt Park

About midnight, someone fired two shots in the 1200 block of North Spaulding Avenue, striking a 40-year-old man in the leg, police said. The man was taken to John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County, where his condition was stabilized.

17-year-old boy shot in Austin

At about 1:57 a.m., a 17-year-old boy was shot on the 100 block of North Mason Avenue.
The boy was shot in the left foot and was taken to Oak Park Hospital where his condition had stabilized.

 28-year-old man shot in Bucktown

At about 2:15 a.m., a 28-year-old man was in a vehicle traveling westbound on the 2100 block of West Lyndale Street when he was shot.
The man was in the vehicle when a male approached from an alley and fire shots The man was shot in the ankle and taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Hospital where his condition had stabilized.

26-year-old man shot in Englewood

At  about 3 a.m. two males were shot on the 6800 block of South Bell Avenue as they were sitting on a porch.
A 26-year-old man was shot in both legs and another male sustained a graze wound to his left leg, Sullivan said. Both were to Holy Cross Hospital where their conditions had stabilized

 

 

25 year old shot dead in Humboldt Park

Early Friday, about 12:45 a.m. in the 3600 block of West Augusta Boulevard, a man was shot in the chest. The victim, Rubin Austin, 25, of the 1100 block of North Ridgeway Avenue, was pronounced dead at 1:38 a.m. at John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County

At least 6 injured at Riot Fest

At least six people were taken to area hospitals with a variety of injuries from Riot Fest in Humboldt Park late Saturday night.
The Chicago Fire Department transported six people - four in good-to-fair condition, two in fair-to-serious condition.
The festival includes dozens of musical acts inside Humboldt Park on the West Side from Friday afternoon through Sunday night.
The fire department had requested a total of 10 ambulances to the park.

Shootings in Chicago September 13, 14, 2013

14-year-old girl shot in Chatham

A  14-year-old girl was shot in in the Chatham neighborhood in the 7900 block of South Vernon Avenue about 4:56 p.m.
The girl was shot in the left leg and was taken to Comer Children's Hospital, where her condition had stabilized. .
The girl was walking with family members to a bus stop to go home from her grandparents' house when the shooting took place. A group of young men or boys with hooded sweatshirts came walking toward the family, and when the group had passed the girl's family, one of them yelled "blow, blow" and someone started shooting.
The family ran, and escaped into a nearby building when someone at the building helped them inside. Once inside, the girl collapsed.

27-year-old man shot in Humboldt Park

A  27-year-old man was critically wounded in the West Humboldt Park neighborhood. The man was standing outside in the 1100 block of North Keystone Avenue when a newer model Toyota or Hyundai pulled up and a passenger got out and opened fire.
He was shot in both arms, once in the face, three times in the abdomen and once in the buttocks.
He was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in critical condition after the 1:40 p.m. shooting

21-year-old man shot In West Town

A 21-year-old was shot about 2 a.m. near the intersection of Damen Avenue and Chicago Avenue in the West Town neighborhood. He was inside a van when someone pulled alongside in a small car and opened fire. He was taken to John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County and is in stable condition

 40-year-old woman and 17-year-old boy shot in Austin

A  40-year-old woman and 17-year-old boy were shot in the 100 block of South Lavergne Street in the Austin neighborhood about 11:15 p.m. Friday. The woman was walking past a group of young men, into an apartment, when the shooting stated. She was hit in the leg and taken to Loretto Hospital in good condition. The 17-year-old boy showed up at West Suburban Medical Center in Oak Park with a graze wound to his groin a short time later. Both are in good condition

Autopsy: Man's death on West Side a homicide

An unidentified man found dead in a gangway early Thursday died from strangulation and blunt trauma to the head in a homicide, the Cook County medical examiner's office determined today.
The man, believed to be in his 50s, was declared dead at John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital at 7:09 a.m. after being found in the 1100 block of North Pulaski Road.
The man died from strangulation, with blunt trauma to the head in an assault a contributing factor.
The man was found in a gangway on Pulaski Road about 6:30 a.m, and detectives were conducting a death investigation

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36-year-old man shot in South Shore

Around 9:45 p.m., a 36-year-old man standing on a sidewalk in the Jackson Park Highlands neighborhood was shot in the back by someone inside a silver four-door sedan.
The shooting happened near 69th Street and Jeffery Boulevard. The man was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital and was stable

29-year-old man shot in Englewood

A  29-year-old man was shot in the hip in Englewood. The man driving an SUV south on Halsted Street when he was shot at 67th Street. He stopped at 69th Street and was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center.

3 people shot in Chatham

In the West Chatham neighborhood, a man was shot and two other people struck with shards of glass around 10:55 a.m. in the 8300 block of South Lafayette Avenue.
One man was shot in the hip and shoulder and taken to Stroger Hospital. The two people hit by flying glass were taken in good condition to Saint Bernard Hospital and Health Care Center.

 35-year-old man shot in Humboldt Park

At about 4:15 p.m., a 35-year-old man shot in the abdomen and bicep walked into Norwegian-American Hospital. He told police he had been shot in the 3800 block of West Grand Avenue.

25-year-old man was shot in  LeClaire Courts

Just before 1 a.m., a 25-year-old man was shot in the upper part of his leg or his groin in the LeClaire Courts neighborhood on the Southwest Side. Police found the man in an alley in the 4500 block of South Lawler Avenue

22-year-old man shot in Longwood Manor

A  22-year-old man was shot about 9:40 p.m. in the 900 block of West 96th Street in the Longwood Manor neighborhood. The man was driving eastbound when someone in a black SUV fired into his vehicle. He was hit in the buttocks and shoulder after crashing into a pole and was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center, where his condition had stabilized

20 year old man shot in Hermosa

A man, 20, was shot in the Hermosa neighborhood about 8:40 p.m. Police said the 20-year-old, who was shot in the 1800 block of North Keeler Avenue, was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital with a wound to his leg and groin.

28-year-old man shot in Humboldt Park

In  the city's West Humboldt Park neighborhood, a 28-year-old man was standing on the street in the 1100 block of North Keystone Avenue when a van pulled up and a passenger fired shots, hitting him in the buttocks. Paramedics found him a short distance away and he was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in good condition

Man shot in Chatham

At 1:30 p.m. in the Chatham neighborhood, someone shot a man in his 20s in the back in the 8000 block of South Cottage Grove Avenue. The man, who was shot twice, was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn in critical condition

23-year-old man shot by Police in Woodlawn

In a police shooting early this morning, police working in the West Woodlawn neighborhood on the South Side heard gunfire, drove toward it and found a 23-year-old man shooting a handgun toward others.
The shooting happened about 2:10 a.m. near the intersection of 63rd Street and King Drive and the man police shot was taken to an area hospital with injuries that are not considered life-threatening.
Patrol officers working the Violence Reduction Initiative were patrolling when they saw a person shooting at an unknown target.
The officers got out of their car and announced their office but the man turned toward police with the gun, so they opened fire, said Camden, the spokesman for the Fraternal Order of Police.
Officers fired when the man turned toward them with the weapon raised.
The man ran after the officers fired and turned two more times toward police with the gun still in his hand, Camden said. It wasn't until the third time that he turned that the officers hit him, in the leg.
The man ran into a nearby apartment, where he was found, Camden said. Police blocked all four points of access to the intersection and brought a light truck to the scene to help search for evidence. 
Police collected a 9-millimeter handgun as evidence, Camden said. No officers were injured

2 men shot in wicker Park

At about 11:23 p.m. Friday night during an argument in Wicker Park in the 1400 block of N. Damen Avenue, a 35-year-old man was shot in the abdomen and taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center in critical condition and a 25-year-old was taken to John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County. 
Police said both men had documented gang affiliations and long criminal histories.

Man shot in Back of the Yards

At about 4:02 a.m., a man was shot in the mouth and is in critical condition at Mount Sinai Hospital. Someone shot him near Garfield Boulevard and Western Avenue in the Back of the Yards neighborhood

18-year-old man shot in Little Village

An 18-year-old man leaning out the back window of a car shouting gang slogans toward a group was shot by someone in the group. Police said the man was hit in the back and arm and is in critical condition at Mount Sinai Hospital. The shooting happened near 26th Street and Lawndale Avenue in Little Village. 

 22-year-old man shot in South Shore

At about 2:20 a.m., someone shot a 22-year-old man in the chest and buttocks. The shooter was refused entry to a house party in the 7800 block of South South Shore Drive in the South Shore neighborhood. After being told he couldn't come in, he fired into the house, hitting the 22-year-old.

63-year-old man shot on Near West Side

Someone shot a 63-year-old man about 1:50 a.m. near the United Center on the Near West Side. The man was wounded in the 2100 block of West Van Buren Street and taken to Stroger hospital. He's being held on suspicion of unlawful use of a weapon because police found a gun in his SUV, which was found on Western Avenue.

18-year-old woman shot in Little Village

Just before midnight, an 18-year-old woman was shot in the 3000 block of South Tripp Avenue in Little Village. She was in a car with two women and two men, and the group drove the wounded woman to Loretto Hospital in the Austin neighborhood on the West Side. The two men disappeared by the time police arrived, though. Someone on the street fired toward the car after throwing other items toward the car

34-year-old man shot in Garfield Park

At about 4:45 a.m., a 34-year-old man was shot in the 3900 block of West Wilcox Street in the East Garfield Park neighborhood on the West Side.
The man had been sitting in a vehicle when someone approached and opened fire, hitting him multiple times in the chest and leg.  He was taken to Mount Sinai, where he was listed in serious condition.

3 people shot in Roseland

Three people were shot about 2:50 a.m. in the 0-100 block of West 114th Street in the Roseland neighborhood on the Far South Side. One of them, a 25-year-old man, was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in critical condition.
A 19-year-old woman was shot in the hand and taken to Advocate Christ, and a 27-year-old woman was shot in the foot and taken to Roseland Community Hospital. Both their conditions were stabilized.

 19-year-old man shot in Park Manor

A 19-year-old man sustained a gunshot wound to the hand in the Park Manor neighborhood.
The man told police someone in a white car fired at him about 9:50 p.m. in the 6800 block of South Champlain Avenue

Man charged in murder of ex-girlfriend's new boyfriend

A 27-year-old man was charged today in connection with the stabbing death of his ex-girlfriend's new 51-year-old boyfriend.
Oliver Spann of the 700 block of North Trumbull Avenue was charged with first-degree murder in the slaying of Elvis Canfield, 51. Canfield was stabbed several times during an early morning fight on Aug. 28 on the 3900 block of West Division Street.
Shortly after 1 a.m. that day, Canfield, of the 1100 block of North Pulaski Road and Spann got into a fight. Canfield was stabbed in the chest and shoulder, then stumbled around a parked car before collapsing on the sidewalk.
Before collapsing Canfield had grabbed a pole outside a store and left a bloody hand print at the scene.
He was later pronounced dead at Stroger Hospital.
Spann was arrested for the slaying after he was identified as the person who stabbed Canfield. The victim was the current boyfriend of a woman that Spann had previously dated

Man beaten by intruders in Northwest Side home

A 30-year-old man suffered severe facial injuries this morning when he was attacked by three intruders in his Northwest Side home.
The man was attacked shortly before 6 a.m. inside his home on the 2600 block of West Potomac Avenue. It was not clear if the man was followed inside or the attackers approached him outside.
The three intruders took the man's wallet and other valuables before being scared by the man's roommate.
The victim was taken in serious condition to Saint Mary of Nazareth Hospital, where his condition was stabilized

Man stabbed to death in Humboldt Park

In the 3900 block of West Division Street in the Humboldt Park neighborhood, a 51-year-old man was stabbed multiple times about 12:20 a.m. during a fight with a "known offender,'' a man.
Police on the scene said after the victim was stabbed in the chest and shoulder in the street just off the corner of Division Street and Harding Avenue he stumbled around a car parked nearby and collapsed on a sidewalk.