3 charged in home invasion shooting

Three Northwest Side men have been charged in connection with a home invasion and shooting Tuesday morning.
Jose Barriga, 18, of the 2400 block of North Mango Avenue, Sergio Mayim, 22, of the 2500 block of North Mango Avenue, and Matthew Andras, 25, of the 2200 block of North Menard Avenue, are all charged with attempted murder, aggravated battery and home invasion.
The crime happened about 9:30 a.m. Tuesday in the 2700 block of North Mango in the Belmont Central neighborhood on the Northwest Side. The three men forced their way into the victim's home to commit a robbery, police said; during the robbery, one fired a handgun at the victim, a 46-year-old man who was transported in serious condition to Adventist Illinois Masonic Medical Center.
The three fled before police arrived, but, after getting and broadcasting a description of the men and the vehicle they were in, officers searching the area found the vehicle with two of the men inside, police said. The third man was found at his home

21-year-old man shot dead in Belmont Central

A 21-year-old man was shot to death in the Belmont Central neighborhood on the Northwest Side. The attack happened about 4:05 a.m. near the intersection of Menard and Fullerton avenues when a car pulled alongside another and someone inside opened fire, killing the other driver.
Police found the car just west of Central Avenue on Fullerton. The man, identified as Saul Salgado, of the 2100 block of North Laramie Avenue, was declared dead at 4:48 a.m.

19-year-old man shot in Belmont Central

A 19-year-old man was shot while walking down the sidewalk in the Belmont Central neighborhood Monday night. The man and a female companion were walking about 10:30 p.m. in the 5900 block of West Fullerton Avenue on the Northwest Side when a gunman on foot starting shooting toward them.
The man sustained a gunshot wound to the leg and was taken to Our Lady of the Resurrection Medical Center, where he was listed in good condition.

Man, 21, fatally stabbed in Belmont Central

A 21-year-old man died after he was found bleeding from stab wounds in the Belmont Central neighborhood overnight.
Police said the man was found near Central and Barry avenues, about a block south of Belmont Avenue.
The man was taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center and pronounced dead there about 2:45 a.m.
Police said four men approached the 21-year-old and started stabbing him.

Man shot in Belmont Central

A person was shot in the 5700 block of West Grand Avenue in the Belmont Central neighborhood on the Northwest Side at about 5:15 a.m.. A man whose age wasn't available was found there with a gunshot wound after someone called to report the sound of gunfire
He's in stable condition at an unknown hospital.

Shootings in Chicago March 23- 24.2013

Man shot in McKinley Park

A man in his 30s was shot in the leg Saturday night in the McKinley Park neighborhood on the South Side.
Someone shot the man at 9:10 p.m. in the 3300 block of South Ashland Avenue

30 year old man shot in Marquette Park

A 30 year-old man was shot in the head Sunday morning after a confrontation over a car that was double-parked.
The shooting happened about 3:30 a.m. in the 7100 block of South Maplewood Avenue in the Marquette Park neighborhood.
Police said the 30-year-old man was shot in the head after an argument, ran west and fell in an alley where an ambulance picked him up and took him to Advocate Christ Medical Center. He was "walking, talking, breathing, living. According to a witness, the confrontation started when a car with two men inside tried to slide past the parked car on Maplewood Avenue. The eventual victim was on the sidewalk next to the parked car.
The parked car was partially blocking the street, the witness said, but there was enough room for the other car to get by.
According to the witness, a woman in the parked car exchanged words with the other car's driver, and the man who eventually was shot told the two men, "Go ahead on now, we're cool, we not on that."
The second car's driver moved past the parked car, stopped at the corner of 72nd and Maplewood, about 50 yards south. One of the two men got out of the vehicle, walked up close to the eventual victim, lifted a handgun and said "Talk that (expletive) now" before firing a single shot

27-year-old woman shot in the South Shore

The woman was shot in the chest and leg in the 7500 block of South Coles Avenue about 3:37 a.m.
She'd been seated inside her vehicle in front of a residence there when a blue car pulled up and someone inside shot her multiple times.
The woman was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital where her condition had stabilized

35 year old man shot in Belmont Central

In the Belmont Central neighborhood on the Northwest Side, in the 2800 block of North Melvina Avenue, a 35-year-old man was shot in the leg about 1:35 a.m.

14-year-old boy shot in McKinley Park

14-year-old boy was shot this afternoon in the McKinley Park neighborhood.
Someone shot the teen in the buttocks at 12:58 p.m. near 37th Street and South Hamilton Avenue on the South Side.  . The victim was transported in good condition to Mt. Sinai Hospital.

Shooting in Chicago March 19 & 20, 2013

25 year old man shot in Englewood

Tuesday night about 9:45 p.m., a 25-year-old man was shot in the 6200 block of South Paulina Street.
The man had answered the doorbell and become involved in a struggle when three people tried to push their way inside. During the struggle, one of the people shot the man with a handgun on the front porch, and three people fled on foot.
The man was taken with a gunshot wound to the right shoulder to Stroger, where his condition was stabilized.
The shooting happened in the West Englewood neighborhood on the South Side.
17 year old boy shot in Belmont Central
At about 2:40 a.m., a 17-year-old boy showed up at Our Lady of the Resurrection Hospital with a graze wound to the neck.

The boy was shot inside a vehicle in the 2500 block of North Austin Avenue. A second vehicle pulled up, and someone inside a vehicle fired shots into the boy's vehicle, grazing him in the neck.

33 year old man shot in Logan Square

At about 5:15 a.m. this morning, a 33-year-old man showed up at John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County with a gunshot wound to the thigh.

The man's condition was stabilized at the hospital.

Police believe the shooting happened near the intersection of West Armitage and North Kedzie avenues, in the West Side's Logan Square neighborhood.

Police chase and catch shooting offenders

Two armed men who pointed guns at Chicago Police prompted a pair of police shootings after officers responded to a call of shots fired and found a critically wounded man in Englewood this afternoon.
The shooting took place at or near Sherwood Park, 5701 S. Shields Ave..
About 4:30 p.m. Englewood District officers were in the area of 59th Street and Princeton Avenue when they heard shots fired, according to Pat Camden, a police union spokesman.
They went to where they heard the gunfire and found a man who’d been shot, said Camden. They also encountered two armed men, one of whom ran away while the other began pointing a gun at the officers.
“They see this guy with a gun and he sees them,’’ Camden said. ”He started shooting at the cops and they returned fire,’’ Camden said. No one was hit.
Meanwhile, a second set of officers took off running after the man who fled, chasing him to 58th Street and Shields Avenue and into a building.
“With a gun in his hand, he pointed it at them and they fired and did not hit him,’’ Camden said.
Both gunmen, who were in their late teens or early 20s, were taken into custody and the guns they were wielding were recovered, Camden said.
At 4:44 p.m. paramedics who were called to the intersection of 57th Street and Shields Avenue for a person shot, took the victim, an 18-year-old man, to John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County in critical condition.
Camden said the men in custody are suspected in the wounding of the hospitalized victim and praised the actions of the officers.

1 charged in Northwest Side garage fires

A man has been charged in a series of fires set in a Belmont Central neighborhood alley early this morning.
Thomas Walsh, 23, of the 3100 block of North Menard Avenue, has been charged with arson in connection with five fires set around 4 a.m. in the 6100 to 6300 blocks of West Fletcher Street. The fires were set about four blocks west of where Walsh lives.
More than a half dozen garages and trash containers were set on fire in the area, with some of the garages suffering extensive damage. Some were near electrical poles, bringing down wires and creating sparks throughout the alley.
In addition to the garages, cars were ruined and a nearby doctors' office suffered fire and electrical damage.
Chicago Police Bomb and Arson detectives questioned Walsh after police arrested him.
Detectives reviewed security camera footage, looking for images of the arsonist.
When arrested, Walsh was wearing a t-shirt with a Chicago Fire Department logo, as well as engine and truck company numbers on it, but Walsh is not a Fireman.

Man shot while driving two sons on Northwest Side

A man in an SUV with his two adult sons was shot and wounded as he drove in the Belmont Central neighborhood on the Northwest Side this morning.
The shooting happened about 5:25 a.m. in the 2800 block of North Austin Avenue.
A black four-door car pulled up next to the SUV and a passenger fired shots, hitting the 41-year-old man in the upper left leg. His sons, 18 and 20, were not injured.
The car sped off and the SUV driver continued four blocks before pulling over to wait for paramedics. The man was taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, where his condition was stabilized

Man, 21, killed in hit-and-run

A 21-year-old man died Saturday night after being struck by a car in the Belmont Central neighborhood.
A light-colored sedan collided with the man, a pedestrian, at about 9:37 p.m. on the 5900 block of West Diversey Avenue.
The man was taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 10:30 p.m.
The driver did not stop after the collision

22-year-old woman shot in Belmont Central

A 22-year-old woman standing outside of a garage at a party in the Belmont Central neighborhood was shot in the foot about 12:45 a.m. Two males approached the party, in the 2800 block of North McVicker Avenue, and fought with another male. One of them opened fire while walking away, hitting the woman in the foot. She was taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, where her condition had stabilized

Man shot in Belmont Central

A  male was shot about 3:25 a.m. in the 2800 block of North Mason Avenue in the Belmont Central neighborhood on the Northwest Side

Motorcyclist fatally struck by SUV on NW Side

A motorcyclist from west suburban Stone Park was killed when he was struck by a vehicle on the city's Northwest Side.
The victim was riding east in the 6200 block of West Diversey Avenue in the Belmont Central neighborhood at about 8:40 p.m. Tuesday when his motorcycle was sideswiped by a black Infiniti SUV pulling into traffic from a parking lot.
The victim, Stanislaw Galek, 42, of the 1000 block of North 39th Avenue, was thrown to the ground by the impact and taken to Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, where he was pronounced dead.
The Infiniti's driver remained at the scene

22-year-old man shot in Belmont Central

At about 6:30 p.m., a 22-year-old man was shot in the abdomen in the Belmont Central neighborhood, near the intersection of Altgeld Street and Mango Avenue. He was grazed in the stomach

Two men shot in the Belmont Central neighborhood

Two men, in their late teens or early 20s, were shot about 3:50 a.m. about a block from the Grand Central District police station. They were shot on the 5700 block of West Grand Avenue in the Belmont Central neighborhood, and the station is at the intersection of Grand and Central avenues. Both were shot in their legs. One walked into Our Lady of the Resurrection Hospital and the other went to West Suburban Hospital

2 dead, 2 injured at extra-alarm fire on Northwest Side

Chicago Police Bomb and Arson and Fire Department investigators are trying to determine the cause of an extra-alarm fire in a boarded-up building on the Northwest Side that left two people dead and two firefighters injured
When crews responded to the block they found the building at 2414 N. Marmora, a 2-1/2 story frame building, fully engulfed in flames, with smoke billowing out of it.
Police and neighbors told fire officials the building has been boarded up for several years but squatters have been going into the building.
The fire was reaching a second building, a 2-story brick building to the north which was occupied, but firefighters were able to keep it from reaching the second building
After the fire was put under control firefighters found two adults of undetermined gender on the second floor who were pronounced dead at the scene.

He said about 90 people, including paramedics and firefighters, had responded to the scene.

In addition to the fatalities, two firefighters suffered non-life-threatening injuries to their legs and were taken from the scene to Our Lady of Resurrection Hospital