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A man who walked out of court to await trial on a felony stolen vehicle charge in June 2024 killed a 25-year-old man just two weeks later while speeding through a red light in yet another stolen car, prosecutors now say. Dujan Lucas, 24, is now the 37th person charged with killing or trying to kill someone while on felony pretrial release in Chicago that year.

A Chicago man is being detained after prosecutors said he tried to carjack a Lyft driver during a terrifying encounter that was partially captured on video by a passing driver’s Meta glasses.

A man has been charged with burglarizing a Chicago church after police released surveillance images and video footage and asked the public to help identify him.

Chicago police have released a surveillance video of a man who burglarized a church in the Scottsdale neighborhood last month. Detectives are asking for a little help as they try to identify the thief.

Chicago police say a man who robbed three gaming stores—two of them just days apart—was caught red-handed at a pawn shop, trying to sell stolen PlayStation controllers from his latest heist. Prosecutors say Aaron Brown used his real ID to sell stolen items and told officers he was raising money to get a commercial driver’s license.

A Chicago man accused of killing three laborers in a November 2023 dispute over a concrete job payment is in custody after Mexican authorities extradited him to Chicago last week, officials said.

A Chicago police officer was shot and a suspect was killed during a physical struggle following an investigatory stop on the city’s West Side last night, authorities reported.

A 17-year-old boy shot a 16-year-old boy in the head during an attempted drug rip-off on the Southwest Side, officials said. Angelo Carlin is now charged with attempted murder and the victim has a long recovery ahead.

Two people were shot in separate vehicles while leaving a street takeover on the Southwest Side overnight. The gathering at 79th Street and Western Avenue was one of several takeovers, impromptu events where fans block intersections so drivers in tricked-out cars can spin donuts in the street, reported across the city.

A 21-year-old man was found shot to death in the Ashburn neighborhood early Sunday on a block that used to be monitored by the city’s ShotSpotter gunfire detection system. 

A fast food cashier had little or no contact with two men he shot to death in the restaurant’s dining room Monday night, prosecutors said as they filed charges in the case.

Surveillance video provided to CWBChicago appears to show that neither victim was threatening the shooter at the moment when they were killed.