An off-duty Chicago police officer opened fire on a catalytic converter theft crew on Tuesday morning, one night after two carloads of men pointed a gun at him in the same location.
A carjacker pushed a 67-year-old woman to the ground and stole her Lexus outside a Target store in the West Loop on Monday morning, according to a Chicago police report.
Two Chicago teenagers who tried to rob a concealed carry holder on Monday were also involved in a carjacking attempt in April, but that victim shot their accomplice dead.
Prosecutors say a Chicago man who was on felony bail shot and killed another man outside an Oak Lawn hospital, where people had gathered to support someone who had just been murdered at a social gathering in Chicago.
Two members of an armed robbery crew were shot by a concealed carry holder and a third member of the team suffered a broken leg after they committed a series of holdups in Wicker Park on Monday morning, according to Chicago Police Department sources
Nearly 40 people have been robbed since Friday by armed holdup crews prowling the city’s near west and north sides. Five of those victims were targeted Sunday evening in the West Loop and West Town.
Prosecutors say a Chicago man shot his ex-girlfriend’s new boyfriend more than 20 times outside the woman’s home while on bail for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
At least 12 more armed robberies were reported in West Town and the North Side of Chicago, where recurring sprees have left dozens of victims in their wakes.
Prosecutors say a seven-time felon with a pending Class X armed habitual criminal case had another gun in the Chicago house where he was on electronic monitoring, and his 3-year-old son shot himself with it on Thursday evening.
An 18-year-old who has been adjudicated delinquent in three juvenile gun cases this year is now accused of carjacking a woman on the Northwest Side while armed with an Airsoft rifle.