Prosecutors say a Chicago man who was on electronic monitoring for allegedly shooting a woman in 2020 got another gun and killed his half-sister’s boyfriend in their home Saturday night.
A man on parole for stashing a handgun on the Grand Red Line platform last summer is back in custody after allegedly threatening a CTA security guard by racking the slide of a loaded gun on the Red Line yesterday afternoon.
An armed security guard shot and killed a man who attacked him with an axe outside a Greektown cannabis dispensary on Monday morning, Chicago police said. The guard is recovering.
Chicago police are investigating a brazen daylight robbery that unfolded in Lakeview on Sunday afternoon. The attack was captured on a resident’s doorbell surveillance camera.
A carjacker dragged a 54-year-old woman with her vehicle and stole her dog in the West Loop on Saturday evening, according to Chicago police. The woman was seriously injured but is recovering, police said.
An 18-year-old with carjacking, armed robbery, and stolen motor vehicle cases pending in juvenile court pulled a gun on a woman when she caught him trying to steal her son’s car with an accomplice, prosecutors said. Both men are also on juvenile probation for felonies.
A man who was awaiting sentencing on federal gun charges was killed in a hail of automatic gunfire in Old Town overnight. Chicago police said they found more than 30 shell casings at the scene.