Roseland

An 18-year-old woman is facing first-degree murder charges, accused of angrily firing a single shot following a traffic crash, killing the driver of the other car. Aaliyah Cain is being detained pending trial.

Police are investigating after a man was found fatally shot in an alley in the Roseland neighborhood early on New Year’s Day. Dispatchers received no calls of shots fired before the man was discovered in the 9400 block of South Harvard.

A 24-year-old man was found shot in a South Side alley on Thursday afternoon, police said, but CPD dispatchers did not receive any calls about gunfire in the area before he was discovered. The shooting occurred on a block that was monitored by the city’s ShotSpotter gunfire detection network until Mayor Brandon Johnson terminated the city’s relationship with the company on September 23.

Four men, including a frequent subject of CWBChicago’s reporting, were charged with federal robbery and firearms charges this week that accuse them of robbing electrical workers of expensive specialized equipment. We first told you about the robbery one year ago, just a few days after the workers were targeted in the 9700 block of South Martin Luther King Drive.

Prosecutors have filed hate crime charges against a South Side man who allegedly shot at because he thought they were gay. No injuries were reported in the incident, which escalated into a SWAT standoff when the accused man barricaded himself inside his home and refused to let his mom go outside, officials said.

Prosecutors have charged a Chicago woman with murder, saying she recruited her twin brother to shoot a man she claimed had beaten her.