Robberies Plaguing South Austin
According to police, two to four men approach victims on the street with handguns demanding money and cell phones.
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According to police, two to four men approach victims on the street with handguns demanding money and cell phones.
A man was pistol-whipped and shot in a car dealership in the South Austin neighborhood on Friday.
Two people were killed, and two others were injured in a house fire in the South Austin neighborhood Thursday morning.
The most recent fatal shooting happened around 10:50 p.m. in the Chatham neighborhood.
Three firefighters and one civilian were injured Monday afternoon when a house went up in flames in the South Austin neighborhood.
Police said the shooting happened around 11:15 a.m. at Friendship Baptist Church at 5200 W. Jackson Blvd.
At 8:48 p.m., a male walked up to five people in the 200 block of South Lotus, opened fire and ran away, according to Chicago Police.
Destiny Gilbert was last seen about 1 p.m. Sunday in the 600 block of North Pine Avenue, according to an alert from Chicago Police.
Three men were wounded in a South Austin neighborhood shooting Saturday evening on the West Side.
Six men were taken to the hospital Thursday morning, after paramedics responded to a report of overdoses at a nursing home in the South Austin neighborhood.
Limar Russell left his home Saturday in the 5600 block of West Washington Boulevard and has not returned, according to Chicago Police.
Three men were shot Friday night in the South Austin neighborhood on the West Side.
A 9-year-old boy was hospitalized Saturday afternoon after accidentally shooting himself in the South Austin neighborhood.
A fire engulfed two homes early Saturday in South Austin, leaving several people displaced.
The most recent fatal shooting happened early Monday in the Brighton Park neighborhood on the Southwest Side, police said.
In the most recent homicide, a 17-year-old boy was gunned down in the South Austin neighborhood on the West Side.
A 14-year-old boy was fatally shot early Saturday in the South Austin neighborhood on the West Side, according to Chicago Police.
He was on a sidewalk at 6:30 p.m. in the 1100 block of North Lawler when someone walked out of an alleyway and shot him.
A man was shot Friday night while trying to recover his girlfriend's stolen vehicle in the South Austin neighborhood on the West Side.
The latest shooting happened at 11:13 p.m. in the South Side Englewood neighborhood.
Police said the shooting happened around 11:10 a.m. near West End and Laporte avenues. Three teenage boys were standing on the sidewalk when two gunmen came out of a nearby alley and opened fire.
In each break-in, someone forced open the rear or front door of a home and stole property from inside, according to a community alert from Chicago Police.
One man is dead and two firefighters injured after a fire broke out in an apartment building in South Austin Friday night.
The fire occurred around 10 p.m. on the second floor of a transient hotel in the 300 block of North Central Avenue.
The homicide happened Saturday afternoon in the West Englewood neighborhood on the South Side.
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In each incident, the burglars pull up in stolen cars, shatter the rear passenger windows of pickup trucks, and steal items inside, police said.
