South Shore

The Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office has determined that a man found shot inside a South Shore apartment on Saturday morning was a homicide victim, marking the first murder of the new year in Chicago.

A 27-year-old man who escaped electronic monitoring earlier this year is now charged with trying to kill a Cook County Sheriff’s Police officer who tried to take him back into custody on the South Side, according to prosecutors.

A 21-year-old man accidentally shot a 1-year-old boy while changing his diaper in a South Shore apartment earlier this month, police say, after a gun he kept inside the child’s diaper bag became tangled and discharged, prosecutors say.

A south suburban teenager who raps under the name “4 Block Lil Mari” has been jailed after prosecutors accused him of shooting a woman during a botched South Shore carjacking that ended with the victim, a concealed carry holder, shooting him as well.

A man who was already on felony pretrial release fired two guns at once in a South Shore alley last month, killing one man and injuring another, according to a newly filed federal complaint.

A South Side woman accused of fatally shooting another woman outside a South Shore nightclub allegedly told a friend afterward that she didn’t want to kill the victim but “God had other plans for her.”

Chicago police are investigating after a concealed carry holder reported shooting a man who tried to run him over with his own stolen car Sunday morning in South Shore.

There is growing evidence that city officials knew, or should have known, about dangerous living conditions inside a South Shore apartment building long before federal immigration agents raided it last week.

Videos recorded inside the South Shore apartment building raided by federal immigration agents last month show it was already falling apart weeks before the operation. Doors were splintered, hallways flooded, security cameras spray-painted, and trash piled in units long before the feds arrived. The footage raises new questions about how much of the damage widely attributed to the raid was actually there before federal agents stormed in.

Federal agents raided a South Shore apartment building early Tuesday, detaining at least 30 people in an operation targeting Tren de Aragua gang members. The same building was the site of a murder where prosecutors say a man was executed and later entombed in concrete at a construction site.

A Chicago man who murdered two Hyde Park High School students after a chance encounter at a gas station has been sentenced to life in prison. Prosecutors said Laroy Battle gunned down 17-year-old Jasean Francis and 16-year-old Charles Riley in a South Shore alley after the boys noticed a gun in his waistband.