Chatham

Prosecutors laid out new details Monday about the apparently random, fatal stabbing of a 7-year-old girl on the South Side. They said 48-year-old Shavon Gayden pulled a knife from her bag, charged at the girl and her older sister, then grabbed the child, took her to the ground, and attacked her.

A 48-year-old woman is charged with first-degree murder, accused of stabbing a 7-year-old girl to death on a South Side street Saturday morning.

A 48-year-old woman fatally stabbed a 7-year-old girl on a South Side street Saturday afternoon, then was knocked unconscious by a bystander and taken into police custody, according to Chicago police and witnesses. Court records show the woman has had an outstanding felony warrant for more than 18 months.

A 20-year-old man has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for murdering a boy during a gun sale in a South Side alley when they were both teenagers.

A 16-year-old boy has been charged with participating in a shooting and robbery that left three people dead and a fourth injured in Chatham. He’s the second person charged. Prosecutors said a group of teens and adults spent hours in a bedroom smoking marijuana and handling a rifle before one of the accused pulled out a handgun and opened fire, then stole the rifle.

A man on parole, house arrest, and electronic monitoring for raping a woman in a Boystown alley 19 years ago sexually abused a 6-year-old girl at a South Side bus stop last weekend, prosecutors say. But the girl’s mother managed to take a picture of the man before he got away, and an anonymous tipster recognized him when Chicago police released the image to the public earlier this week.

City officials on Wednesday released footage of Chicago police officers shooting a man during an exchange of gunfire after the suspect allegedly shot a woman during a domestic altercation earlier this year.

Shoplifting reports at a South Side Walgreens set to close next month skyrocketed 187% last year, reaching the highest level seen in at least two decades, according to city data that appears to bolster the company’s claim that rampant theft made the store financially unsustainable.

The armed parolee whom Chicago Police Officer Krystal Rivera was chasing when her partner unintentionally shot and killed her last year received an eight-year sentence on Thursday after he pleaded guilty to one of the least-serious charges that prosecutors filed against him, court records show.

A South Side drug crew distributed business cards for “Nova’s Exotic Beverages” to advertise the fentanyl and cocaine they sold from a Chatham apartment while storing inventory, cash, and firearms, including machine gun conversion devices, at a nearby stash house, according to newly unsealed federal court records.