Roseland

An 18-year-old aspiring rapper is accused of robbing a Facebook Marketplace seller of shoes and clothing and then posting the stolen items for resale on the same Facebook account within 24 hours.

A 26-year-old Chicago man was detained Thursday after prosecutors said he shot his own mother four times, then opened fire on a Chicago Police sergeant minutes later, telling investigators he had been wanting to shoot a cop since he had a recent “spiritual awakening.”

A Chicago man has been sentenced to 116 months in federal prison for robbing three electrical workers at gunpoint in broad daylight, a crime prosecutors say was part of an escalating pattern of high-value thefts dating back to when the defendant was 16 years old.

A 13-year-old boy is charged with shooting a 14-year-old after a witness who saw the crime recognized the gunman as a student at a nearby elementary school.

A man was found shot to death on a front porch in Roseland early Friday morning, Chicago police said, but it was not immediately clear when he was slain because nobody reported gunfire in the area, and the mayor disconnected the city’s ShotSpotter network nearly 17 months ago without having a plan for replacing the gunfire detection system.

A six-time convicted felon on parole for four armed robberies is now accused of carjacking a man at gunpoint during what was supposed to be a sexual encounter arranged through a gay dating app on Chicago’s far South Side, prosecutors said.

Just one month after being released from prison, a man is now accused of carrying out a violent anti-gay hate crime inside a South Side halfway house, later telling police he was trying to chop another resident’s head off and was not sorry, prosecutors say.

A registered sex offender who robbed and raped a woman at gunpoint on the Far South Side has been sentenced to twelve years in prison. Officials noted the allegations mirror a sexual assault he committed as a juvenile.

A concealed carry holder shot a 17-year-old boy who broke into his car in Roseland early Monday morning, according to Chicago police.

A 64-year-old man was found critically wounded on a Far South Side block late Thursday night after no one called in gunfire, a delay that may have been prevented if ShotSpotter were still active in the neighborhood.

A Chicago man who shot a woman five times on a South Side expressway—less than three weeks after buying his gun—has been sentenced to seven years in prison.