50-year-old man shot in Altgeld Gardens

About 1 a.m., a 50-year-old man opening his apartment door in the Altgeld Gardens housing complex heard shots and felt pain. The shooting happened in the 700 block of East 133rd Street. The man was treated and released from Roseland Hospital.

3 shot, 1 shot dead in Altgeld Gardens

Someone shot up a birthday party in the Altgeld Gardens housing complex about 1:50 a.m., hitting four people. One, a 28-year-old man, died at the scene. Two others were taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center: a 40-year-old man and a 20-year-old woman. A 22-year-old man was dropped off at Metro South Medical Center in Blue Island and is in stable condition. The man and woman at Christ hospital are both in serious condition

Charges in 2011 slaying during Far South Side brawl

A former Altgeld Gardens resident has been charged with killing another area man during a 2011 brawl between their families that police said was sparked by an insult to the shooter’s mother.
Camari Glover, 20. Glover, had been identified by witnesses as the man who killed Nicholas Jackson, 29, during the fight involving more than 100 people in the 600 block of East 133rd Street about 10:25 p.m. Sept. 4, 2011.
Police said at the time that the shooter had pulled out a handgun and shot Jackson during the brawl that started following an insult to the shooter’s mother. Jackson was shot several times and died at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn.
The chaos from the brawl made it difficult for emergency vehicles to get to the shooting scene.
Video surveillance captured the shooting, and an eyewitness who knew him saw Glover shoot Jackson. A few days after the shooting, police issued an investigative alert for Glover.
Two other witnesses saw Glover, with a gun in one hand, running from the area. All three witnesses identified Glover’s photograph from among other photos, and last month, detectives obtained a warrant for his arrest on a murder charge.
Detectives found Glover was living in the 1200 block of 17th Avenue in Gary, and had him arrested, extradited, and placed in custody on the murder charge, after which witnesses identified him in an in-person lineup

Man shot in Altgeld Gardens

A man was shot in the Altgeld Gardens neighborhood on the Far South Side this afternoon.
Paramedics went to the 700 block of East 133rd Street about 1 p.m. for a gunshot victim.
The person shot was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn in serious-to-critical condition

Man charged with assaulting 14-year-old girl

A 20-year-old Chicago man is accused of sexually assaulting and threatening to shoot a 14-year-old girl last summer inside a laundry room at a housing project on the Far South Side.
Dantrell D. Sawyer is charged with aggravated criminal sexual assault for the Aug. 29, 2012 attack. He was arrested Friday at his home in the 13300 block of South Corliss Avenue.
Sawyer allegedly approached the girl while she was walking to her grandmother's home near East 130th Street and South Indiana Avenue and asked if he could use her cell phone.
The girl allowed Sawyer to use her phone and then Sawyer asked if she wanted him to buy her some shoes.
The girl declined, but Sawyer said he needed to walk to the nearby housing project to get money for the shoes.
The girl went with Sawyer to the housing project in the 13000 block of South Daniel Drive, where Sawyer allegedly forced her into a laundry room and shut the door.
The lights were off, and Sawyer allegedly pressed a hard object into the girl's back that he told her was a gun before he allegedly assaulted her.
Court documents quoted Sawyer as telling the girl, "I got a gun. You better not say anything. If you do, I'm gonna shoot you."
Sawyer left, and the girl was taken to Roseland Community Hospital, where she was treated for her injuries and released
Sawyer was arrested after the girl identified him in a photo lineup

Man arrested at Union Station month after Far South Side sex assault

More than a month after Troy A. Graves allegedly kidnapped and sexually assaulted a girl at gunpoint near his Southeast Side home.

Graves, of the 700 block of East 130th Place in Chicago’s Altgeld Gardens neighborhood, faces one count of aggravated criminal sexual assault with a weapon and one count of aggravated armed kidnapping in connection with the Nov. 19 incident.

Graves, 22, is accused of attacking and sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl in the 900 block of East 133rd Place. Prosecutors said Grave threatened the girl with the gun while he sexually assaulted her.

Officers learned he would be arriving at Union Station on Friday and arrested him there without incident at 3:30 p.m. Graves was identified by the victim

18 years old shot in Altgeld Gardens

A man was taken to a hospital after he was shot on the Far South Side this afternoon.
A man about 18 years old was shot in the buttocks at 1 p.m. in the 600 block of East 131st Street
The man was taken to Northwestern Memorial but his condition was not known.

Police wound TEC-9 wielding gunman on Far South Side

Chicago police wounded a man they saw wielding a TEC-9 pistol at the Altgeld Gardens housing complex on the city's Far South Side, late Sunday.
No officers were injured in the incident that occurred just before 9 p.m. in the 13100 block of South Langley Avenue, according police and the Fraternal Order of Police.
Two Calumet District officers were on routine patrol in the area when they spotted a man standing near a fenced area on South Langley and approached him for a street interview, said Pat Camden, an FOP spokesman.
As the officers approached, the man walked away quickly, prompting the officers to split up to cut off the man's retreat.
The officers followed the man into a fenced-off area where they saw him "barricade himself" behind a dumpster, appearing to raise and lower a firearm behind it, Camden said.
The officers identified themselves and demanded the man drop his weapon, Camden said.
When the man refused, continuing to raise and lower the weapon, one of the officers fired a shot, Camden said.
The shot hit the man in the foot and the man was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn with non-serious injuries.
Camden said that police recovered the TEC-9 at the scene

Man shot, seriously wounded in Far South Side attack

A man was shot and seriously wounded in the Eden Green neighborhood on the Far South Side tonight.
The man, age 36, was shot in the leg, foot and abdomen in the 13300 block of South Indiana Avenue, a little before 7:30 p.m.
The victim was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn in serious-to-critical condition

Male victim fatally wounded in Far South Side shooting

A male victim was fatally wounded this evening in a shooting on the Far South Side in the city's Golden Gate neighborhood.
Preliminary reports said officers responded shortly after 6:30 p.m. to a call of shots fired on the 13000 block of South Eberhart Avenue.
A male victim was found with a fatal gunshot wound

6-year-old girl was shot after teen had dispute over basketball bet- only in Chicago- only in the ghetto where the massive hoards of fatherless young men lack self control, common sense and even an iota of decency

A 6-year-old girl was wounded by a stray bullet on the Far South Side last week when a 15-year-old boy pulled out a gun and started shooting following a dispute over a bet on a basketball game the boy was playing.
The boy was charged today as an adult with aggravated battery with a firearm in the shooting about 7:10 p.m. Thursday near a play lot in the 13200 block of South St. Lawrence Avenue. Police did not release the boy’s name because he is a juvenile.
The girl suffered a graze wound to the right thigh. She was treated at MetroSouth Medical Center.
The boy was playing basketball with a group of other boys when they got into a dispute over a wager, police said. The boy took out a pistol and began shooting, apparently missing his intended target but striking the girl

Three women shot in Altgeld Gardens

Three women were shot on the 13200 block of South Vernon Street about 10:25 p.m.. They were standing with a group of people when someone started shooting.
A woman in her 20s was shot in the ankle and taken to Roseland Hospital in good condition.
Another woman in her 20s was shot in the leg and is in fair condition at Adovcate Christ Medical Center.
The third woman, in her 30s, was taken to Advocate South Suburban Hospital in Hazel Crest

7-year-old shot in Golden Gate neighborhood

A 7-year-old girl was shot in the thigh about 7:10 p.m. on the Far South Side.
The girl was shot in the Golden Gate neighborhood, just west of the Altgeld Gardens, on the 13200 block of S. St. Lawrence Avenue.
Two men were playing basketball nearby and started arguing when one grabbed a gun and opened fire, police said, hitting the child in the thigh but missing the apparent target.
The girl is in good condition at Metro South Medical Center

19-year-old man shot on the Far South Side

19-year-old man  shot on the Far South Side about 8 p.m., he was shot in the chest in the Altgeld Gardens neighborhood, on the 13000 block of South Evans Street.

25-year-old man shot in the Altgeld Gardens

25-year-old man was shot on the 600 block of East 133rd Street in the Altgeld Gardens neighborhood on the Far South Side. He's in good condition at Metro South Hospital.