South Chicago

A Chicago man has been detained after prosecutors said he stood naked outside a South Chicago home on the Fourth of July, masturbating and trying to lure an 11-year-old girl to come outside.

A Venezuelan migrant was detained Thursday night after police allegedly recovered a loaded gun and an inert grenade from him on a CTA bus.

Prosecutors have charged a Chicago man with involuntary manslaughter, saying he is responsible for shooting and killing a woman while playing with a gun over the weekend.

Chicago police officers arrested a 13-year-old armed carjacker on Sunday evening, just seconds after he took the victim’s car.

Two teenage boys, ages 15 and 14, face felony charges following the armed hijacking of a vehicle from a 61-year-old man on Chicago’s South Side, police announced today.

Prosecutors this week charged a Chicago woman with murdering a man last summer and, in an unrelated case, sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl in 2023.

Prosecutors have charged a man with carjacking a driver this summer and then shooting a witness who chased after the hijacked vehicle. Akyreian Anders, 18, is the third person charged in connection with the August 30 hijacking in the 8100 block of South Escabana.

A man found unresponsive at the mouth of an alley in South Chicago overnight had been fatally shot, Chicago police said. The man, who suffered a gunshot wound to his head, was pronounced dead at the scene.

Two boys, one only 12 years old, are charged with carjacking a woman at gunpoint in the South Shore neighborhood after Chicago police supervisors permitted cops to engage the hijackers in a vehicle pursuit on Tuesday evening.

A woman has been given a nine-year sentence for intentionally shooting a 12-year-old girl who got into an argument with her niece.

Two people face carjacking charges after cops tracked them down by following an AirTag attached to the victim’s key fob.