West Garfield Park

Chicago police say a 14-year-old boy is responsible for a mass shooting that left four juveniles wounded in West Garfield Park this summer, making him one of the city’s youngest accused gunmen this year.

Prosecutors have filed charges against a man who allegedly shot and paralyzed another man in a West Side alley over the weekend, unaware that a Chicago police officer was looking at him from just yards away.

A Chicago police officer witnessed a shooting and then successfully chased and apprehended the gunman in West Garfield Park on Saturday morning.

A 65-year-old man found yelling and waving his hand for help on a West Side street overnight was suffering from a gunshot wound, police discovered. Exactly when the man was shot as he walked near Hamlin and Independence is unclear because nobody called 911 to report gunfire, and Mayor Brandon Johnson disconnected the city’s ShotSpotter network, which used to monitor the area, in September.

A man with 21 felony convictions, including 10 for armed robbery, is now charged with attempted murder for allegedly shooting a man in a robbery attempt outside a Maxwell Polish stand. Tommie Johnson, 54, is also accused of committing another armed robbery and threatening to shoot a woman in the days since the April 9 shooting outside Maxwell’s 3801 West Harrison location.

A judge handed down a 20-year sentence this week to a man accused of fatally stabbing another man in a dispute over a bus pass. Patrick O’Reilly, 29, had been on felony bail for a DUI case for just four days when he allegedly committed the murder in March 2022. He was also on bail for a felony gun case from DuPage County.

For the second time this week, a shooting victim was found outdoors in the West Side ward represented by Ald. Monique Scott (24th). And, like the first victim, nobody called 911 to report the gunfire that injured her. Instead, she received help from a passerby who found her near the basketball courts at Park 500.

 A multi-convicted felon had quite a week in early November: charged with a felony on November 2, released by a judge on November 3, arrested for trespassing on November 4, released by another judge on November 5, and, on November 6, prosecutors say, he nearly beat a man to death with a chunk of concrete.

Around 8:47 p.m. Tuesday, somebody called 911 for a person down in the 4000 block of West Wilcox. Everybody thought he was yelling and screaming because he was drunk or high. In fact, he had been shot. It’s too bad the mayor removed ShotSpotter from that block in September. That man could have really used it.

A man required to register as a gun offender is facing new charges after Chicago police used scooter rental records to link him to a double shooting this summer.