Lower West Side

A Venezuelan man, in the country illegally, was shot and killed by an off-duty FBI agent after firing shots at a group of people at a Lower West Side homeless encampment, federal officials say. He also had an outstanding felony warrant in a Chicago shoplifting case.

A Chicago alderman says someone set off a bomb outside his home early Saturday, shattering a window as his three children were sleeping. But police dispatch records show CPD was not sent to any calls of an explosion at the time of the blast and an initial police investigation later on Saturday morning found the object appeared to be a firework.

A 23-year-old man has been detained for allegedly firing seven shots into another car during a daytime road rage incident on the Stevenson Expressway—an act that was witnessed by an off-duty police detective.

Chicago police are trying to drum up fresh leads as they work to solve a shooting that left a man dead and a 7-month-old boy injured in November. Area Four detectives released surveillance video of a suspect and the gunman’s car on Monday night and asked tipsters to get in touch.

On the heels of last night’s double shooting involving men who attended a street takeover on the Southwest Side, we decided to check in on a trio of guys who were accused of having guns during an unrelated stunt-driving session late last year. Two had much better outcomes than the third.