Car crashes into South Side home, driver dead

A man is dead after the car he was driving crashed into a home on the South Side this morning.
Emergency crews were called to the first block of East 87th Street about 5:15 a.m. after a white BMW smashed into a home, Chicago Police Department News Affairs Officer John Mirabelli said.
Witnesses told police the car had been traveling west at high speeds

 

Off-duty corrections officer shot

The officer, a seven-year veteran, had just finished his shift and was driving north on Interstate 57 around 2 a.m. when he suspected he was being followed. He pulled off the expressway in the 9500 block of South State Street and a car followed him.
The officer was alone in his Jaguar when he stopped.
Someone in the vehicle trailing him pulled up alongside his car, pulled a hoodie over his head and began firing at the officer, who was still seated in the car. It was not known what, if anything they said to the officer.
The Officer was shot once in the back once in the jaw and four times in his arm and shoulder area.
The officer was in surgery this morning at John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County where they were trying to repair his jaw.
Police said the man's condition had stabilized.

Man shot in West Chesterfield

At about 3:30 p.m., a man described as in his 20s was shot in the city's West Chesterfield neighborhood. That shooting happened on the 8700 block of South King Drive.
The man suffered a wound to his foot and his condition was stabilized

Man shot and killed in West Chesterfield

A  male was shot in the 8800 block of South Prairie Avenue about 8 p.m. He's in critical condition at Stroger Hospital
He was first listed in critical condition with a gunshot wound to the back but he later died.
The Cook County medical examiner's office identified him as Phillip McCall, of the 200 block of East 89th Street. He was shot six times in the park next to McDade Classical Elementary School

Man shot in West Chesterfield

In the West Chesterfield neighborhood on the South Side, a 33-year-old man was shot at least twice in the right leg about 7:53 p.m. in the 8800 block of South Michigan Avenue

Police seek teen wanted in sex attack of student

Police today asked for the public's help in finding a male youth who sexually assaulted a 15-year-old girl at gunpoint yesterday morning in the West Chesterfield  neighborhood on the Far South Side.
The youth confronted the student from behind while she was walking in the area of 95th Street and Prairie Avenue about 9 a.m.
He engaged her in conversation but then pulled a handgun and sexually assaulted her in a nearby yard.
 The attacker fled while a stranger in the area assisted the victim.
 The alert describes the suspect as black, about 17, 5-foot-7 and 120 pounds, with brown eyes and a very light complexion.
 He was last seen wearing a black skull cap, a hoodie, blue jeans and tan “Timberland” boots.
Anyone with information is asked to call Calumet Area detectives at 312-747-8271.