13-year-old shot, seriously wounded on Far South Side

A 13-year-old boy was shot and seriously wounded in the Far South Side’s West Pullman neighborhood this afternoon.
The victim was shot near 120th Street and Michigan Avenue and taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in serious-to-critical condition.
The victim was shot in the shoulder about 1:50 p.m.
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Police issue alert after sexual assault in West Pullman

Chicago police issued a community alert today after a 21-year-old woman was sexually assaulted in the West Pullman neighborhood earlier this month.
The assault occurred on Sept. 4 at 4:15 a.m. as the woman was asleep in a relatives vehicle which was in a parking lot in the 11600 block of South Halsted Avenue.
A man entered the vehicle on the driver's side and drove the vehicle to the 12000 block of South Morgan Street where he sexually assaulted her at gunpoint.
The woman was able to escape and notify police, .
The man is described as black, with a dark complexion, between 5-foot-7 and 5-foot-9, between 190 and 200 pounds, police said. He had tattoos on his arms, a salt-and-pepper mustache and beard, reddish eyes and a large belly
He was wearing a fitted cap, a short, faded haircut, black gloves with red stitching with the fingers cut out, dark khaki pants and combat boots.
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Anyone with information is asked to call police at (312) 747-8271 or email tips to the police at
area2tipline@chicagopolice.org

Man fatally shot on Far South Side

A 23-year-old man died at an area hospital not long after Chicago police discovered his bullet-riddled body on a Far South Side street.
Officers found Dominque Blackmon unresponsive at about 10 p.m. Monday in the 10100 block of South Perry Avenue in the Fernwood neighborhood, citing early reports. Blackmon, of the 8800 block of South Carpenter Street, had been shot mulitple times in the face and body.
He was rushed to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead.
Police suspect the shooting was gang or drug-related, with a source adding that witnesses interviewed at the scene weren't cooperative with responding officers.
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Lawsuit: 12-year-old girl repeatedly assaulted in school closet by classmates- BLACK CULTURE IN ACTION

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The father of a Pullman Elementary School student filed a lawsuit Monday in Cook County Circuit Court alleging that repeated sexual abuse suffered by his 12-year-old daughter could have been prevented. According to the lawsuit, the student, referred to in the court filings as Jane Doe, was “lured” in to a closet at the West Pullman school by two classmates and assaulted on numerous occasions.
The lawsuit casts blame on school officials and the Chicago Board of Education for failing to protect the student.







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Man seriously wounded in West Pullman shooting

A man was seriously wounded late Saturday when he was shot in the back in the West Pullman neighborhood on the Far South Side.

 About 11:50 p.m. a 25-year-old man was shot in the back near the intersection of South Lowe Avenue and West 124th Street.

 The man was taken in serious condition to Advocate Christ Medical Center.

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Police fire at gun-wielding man

Chicago police fired shots at a man who they said pointed a handgun at officers as he fled a domestic incident on the city's Far South Side.
The shots didn't hit the unidentified man, who was taken into custody after a brief chase.
Officers arrived at the home in the 10400 block of South Wentworth Avenue just after 6 p.m. Monday, when the man bolted out a back door, leading the officers to give chase.
During the chase, the man pointed a gun but didn't fire the weapon, police said. At least one of the officers opened fire.
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Mom insult may have led to fatal Far South Side shooting in the Altgeld Gardens projects and we can't wait until Section 8 sends these nice folks to our communities

A 29-year-old man was shot dead during a late-night fight in the Altgeld Gardens projects on the city's Far South Side after insulting the gunman's mother,.
A small quarrel in the 600 block of East 133rd Street quickly escalated into a brawl involving more than 100 people that ended with a man pulling a handgun and shooting the 29-year-old victim in the chest at about 10:25 p.m. Sunday.
The unidentified victim was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead a short time later.
The shooting wasn't considered gang-related though everyone involved was believed to be members of an area street gang, the source added.
The chaos that erupted from the brawl made it difficult for emergency medical technicians to get to the shooting scene.
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18 year old shot in the Pullman neighborhood

An 18-year-old male was shot in the leg in the 11300 block of South Forrestville Avenue in the Pullman neighborhood on the Far South Side. The victim was outside when he heard shots and felt pain in his leg. He was transported to Roseland Community Hospital, where his condition had stabilized.
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Woman 8 months pregnant wounded in car

A woman eight months pregnant was shot and wounded Monday afternoon on the Far South Side as she was riding in a car with her boyfriend and mother.
About 3:45 p.m., a gunman ran into the street toward the car in the 11300 block of South Calumet Avenue in the Roseland neighborhood and opened fire.
The 21-year-old woman's boyfriend, who was driving, was not hit, nor was the woman's mother in the back seat. But she was wounded in the lower hip. The motive for the shooting was unclear.
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3 shot in West Pullman

Three people were shot this evening in the Far South Side's West Pullman neighborhood and were taken to local hospitals.
The incident happened at about 6:40 p.m. near 119th Street and Michigan Avenue.
Details of the shooting itself, but the victims were identified as a 29-year-old man who was shot in the right calf, a 23-year-old man also shot in the right calf and a teenage girl shot in the lower left leg.
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18-year-old shot on Far South Side

An 18-year-old man was critically injured in a shooting on the city's Far South Side.
The shooting happened just after 11 p.m. Monday in the 11000 block of South State Street in the city's Roseland neighborhood.
The victim was standing on a porch when someone he knew approached, pulled a handgun and opened fire.
The victim, struck in the abdomen and buttocks, was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn in critical condition.
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3 wounded in shooting in Roseland

Three people, including a 17-year-old boy, were shot as they sat in a van on the city's Far South Side.
The shooting was reported just before 11:30 p.m. Monday in the 100 block of East 113th Street in the city's Roseland neighborhood.
Police found evidence of the shooting, including the bullet-riddled van. Reports indicated that the three male victims, ages 17, 20 and 22, were sitting in the parked van when a gunman in a red car drove by and opened fire, striking all three.
The two older men suffered only graze wounds and were taken to Roseland Community Hospital in good condition, police said.
The teen was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn to be treated for a gunshot wound to the abdomen but was expected to survive.
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Hammond teen killed in robbery on Far South Side

A Hammond teen shot this morning in an armed robbery in the Far South Side's West Pullman neighborhood has died from his injuries.
The incident took place just after 8 a.m. in the 12700 block of South Wallace Street, police said. Initial reports that the incident was a carjacking were inaccurate.
Instead, police believe that the 17-year-old victim went to the scene intending to sell auto parts to people there.
When he arrived, he was robbed and shot by two armed assailants. During the incident the victim got into the suspects' car and drove off.
The victim was later treated at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead at about 11:45 a.m..
He was identified as Jose Serrano of Hammond, Ind.
The two assailants fled the scene before police arrived.
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25-year-old man suffered a gunshot wound

About 5 a.m. today, a 25-year-old man suffered a gunshot wound to the leg in the 12300 block of South Wentworth Avenue in the West Pullman neighborhood on the Far South Side.
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16-year-old shot on Far South Side front porch

A 16-year-old boy was shot and seriously wounded while standing on his front porch late this morning in the Roseland neighborhood on the South Side, authorities said.

The victim was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn in serious-to-critical condition from just east of State Streeton 113th Place
following the shooting just before 11:15 a.m., said Chicago Fire Department spokesman Richard Rosado.

The boy was standing on his front porch when he heard shots and realized he had been shot in the leg, said Chicago Police News Affairs Officer Darryl Baety. He was hospitalized in serious but stable condition, Baety said
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Cops: Assailant stabbed during attack might need medical attention

A man who tried to pull a girl into a Far South Side alley early Wednesday was stabbed in the chest, and he might seek medical attention, police said today in a community alert.
The incident happened about 7:20 a.m. on the 11700 block of South Princeton Avenue, according to the alert released late this afternoon.

Preliminary reports said a man, described as in his 20s, approached a 15-year-old girl and attempted to drag her into an alley. The girl struggled with the man and stabbed him in the upper left side of his chest, police said.

The man fled northbound on Princeton and might be seeking medical attention for his injury.

Police described the suspect as a black male who is about 5 feet and 9 inches tall. He was wearing a black ski mask, a black hooded sweatshirt and black pants at the time of the attack.
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Boy, 9, shot in head in backyard in Roseland neighborhood (9 year old child shot in head, nope not shocking enough keep trying)

A 9-year-old boy was shot in the head early this morning in the backyard of his Roseland neighborhood home on the South Side after he and his father went outside to bring in the family dog chained there, police said.

The boy -- identified by the family as Ivan Burns Jr. -- was in critical condition at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where family members were gathered this morning.
The father and son were either watching TV or playing video games when they decided to retire at about 3:20 a.m.  But first, they went into the backyard of their home in the first block of East 100th Place to get the dog, said Police News Affairs Officer Laura Kubiak.

Several shots rang out and the boy was struck in the head, Kubiak said.

Ivan is a student at Bennett Elementary School on the Far South Side, his family said.

"He's a bright kid. He's like any kid, he wants to have fun," said Ivan's aunt, Chiquita Burns, as she waited at the hopsital. "My nephew is my baby. I call him my baby. My mom practically raised him with his father.

"People need to stop with this senseless shooting," she said. "They need to realize that our people (are) losing their world over some (nonsense) that other people (are) doing.

"Leave our kids alone!"

One neighbor told WGN-TV she heard gunshots and went inside and locked her door. Later, she heard more gunshots. Altogether, she heard eight shots.

Another resident said the Burns family are “good Christian people” and could not imagine how this could happen.

The block where Ivan lives is lined with single-family homes, several of them boarded up.  Yellow police tape cordoned off half the block this morning, including outside the home where the boy was shot.

Evidence technicians were walking in and out of the boy's two-story home. They were also moving back and forth behind it.

Children played basketball in the middle of the street as onlookers gathered at the end of the block, at State Street.
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Teen found fatally shot on Far South Side

A 17-year-old boy was discovered fatally shot on a street in the city's Roseland neighborhood, police said today.
Officers arriving to calls of a person shot in the 10700 block of South Wentworth Avenue just before 9:45 p.m. Monday found the teen on the ground with a gunshot wound to the left side of his chest, police said, citing early reports.

Police said that the teen had been walking on the sidewalk when shots rang out and he was struck. Exactly where the shots came from wasn't clear
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Man seriously wounded in West Pullman

A man was seriously injured this morning in a shooting on the city's West Pullman neighborhood on the Far South Side, police said.
Police said they discovered the victim, a 31-year-old man, lying wounded on the sidewalk at about 12:50 a.m. in the 11800 block of South Princeton Avenue.
The man had gunshot wounds to the face and body, said Officer Hector Alfaro, a police spokesman.
He was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn in serious condition, Alfaro said.
Police didn't have a description of the gunman and hadn't yet made any arrests.
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Man, 19, shot dead at Roseland bus stop

A 19-year-old man was shot and killed this morning as he waited at a bus stop in the Roseland neighborhood on the city's Far South Side, police said.

The shooting happened at about 2:40 a.m. near the intersection of 107th Street and Michigan Avenue, authorities said.
The victim was standing with his brother at the bus stop when a gunshot rang out and he was  struck in the head, police said. The victim was pronounced dead at the scene, but no other injuries were reported, police said.
The victim was identified as Aaron Leonard, of the 10800 block of South Wentworth Avenue, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office.
Police didn't have a description of the gunman. It wasn't immediately clear whether the victim's brother got a look at the gunman. Police didn't offer a motive to slaying, saying the victim didn't appear to have a criminal background or a known gang affiliation.
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