
Police: Man Shot To Death After Crash In Austin
A man was shot to death during an argument after a traffic crash Saturday afternoon in the Austin neighborhood on the West Side, police said.
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A man was shot to death during an argument after a traffic crash Saturday afternoon in the Austin neighborhood on the West Side, police said.
A 32-year-old man was gunned down about 8:45 p.m. in the Washington Park neighborhood.
The 59 gunshot victims tallied between Friday evening and Tuesday morning nearly doubled the toll from the same four-day holiday weekend last year, when 30 people were shot across the city, leaving six dead.
Seven men were killed and at least 23 other people have been wounded in shootings across Chicago since Friday evening, according to Chicago Police.
A 26-year-old man has been charged with killing one roommate and wounding another in a shooting more than two months ago in the West Side Austin neighborhood.
Police said a 16-year-old girl was beaten and raped inside a home in the Austin neighborhood Monday evening.
At least six people were wounded in shootings in a span of less than five hours Tuesday on Chicago's South and West sides.
The male victim, whose age was not immediately known, was shot in the chest and head at 8:41 a.m. in the 600 block of North Long, police said. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Ron Allen, of Naperville, was heading back home after playing cards with friends on Dec. 2, when someone shot him as he was driving on the 1300 block of North Laramie Avenue.
The most recent shooting happened at 7:13 p.m. in the West Pullman neighborhood on the Far South Side, police said.
The 19-year-old suffered multiple stab wounds to the body about 12:30 a.m. in the 100 block of North Central, according to Chicago Police. He was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in serious condition.
A man was seriously wounded in a drive-by shooting Tuesday afternoon in the West Side Austin neighborhood.
The latest killing happened about 12:30 p.m. in the Oakland neighborhood, where officers found 49-year-old Lawerence T. Matchem unresponsive with a gunshot wound to the head in the 800 block of East 40th Street, Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner's office said.
The most recent fatal shooting happened Sunday afternoon in the Riverdale neighborhood on the Far South Side.
The homicide happened about 4 p.m. in Englewood on the South Side, where a 31-year-old man was letting a passenger out of his vehicle in the 7100 block of South Morgan when someone walked up and shot him in the chest, according to Chicago Police.
The latest killing happened about 4:30 p.m. in North Lawndale, where someone walked up to a man in the 1300 block of South Komensky and shot him repeatedly.
Police are warning West Side residents of two recent armed robberies in the Austin neighborhood.
A 37-year-old man was fatally shot about 2 p.m. in the West Side Austin neighborhood.
A man was shot Friday night in the West Side Austin neighborhood.
Ronald L. Allen once ran an insurance agency in the Austin area and had kept ties with the neighborhood, family members say. CBS 2's Suzanne Le Mignot reports.
The latest killing happened just after 8 p.m. in South Shore, where officers responding to a call of shots fired found a 24-year-old man in a gangway with gunshot wounds to the head and abdomen in the 6800 block of South Cornell. He was dead at the scene, police said.
A swastika was found painted on the door of an elementary school Tuesday morning in the West Side Austin neighborhood.
Two men were shot inside an Austin neighborhood home late Thanksgiving night on the West Side.
A grandfather has been charged with the murder of his 2-month-old granddaughter while he was babysitting in the West Side Austin neighborhood in July.
The weekend's latest fatal shooting happened just after 5 p.m. Sunday in the East Side neighborhood on the Far South Side.
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The person who died was a suburban Cook County resident in their 60s.
The department said the patient was a 4-year-old child who was not vaccinated.
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Anakin Cesar Perez's death comes with a call for change from the community, as neighbors point to reckless drivers around the school.
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