Category: Crime and Public Safety

One person was in custody after Chicago police officers saw them shoot someone else early Saturday morning in the North Austin neighborhood on the city’s West Side, according to police. The officers were also shot at when they responded to the incident — described by the police department as “a person with a gun/shots fired call” — in the 5700 block of West North Avenue around 12:45 a.m., but they were not struck by gunfire. One officer returned fire during the confrontation, but the department didn’t specify whether that resulted in any injuries. The person suspected of shooting the other […]

A person was arrested early Saturday morning following a fatal shooting that happened overnight in the South Chicago neighborhood, Chicago police said. Shortly after 4:30 a.m., a 24-year-old man suffered a gunshot wound to the stomach in the 8400 block of South Kingston Avenue, and was taken to UChicago Medicine where he was pronounced dead. A person was taken into custody and charges were pending, police said. Detectives were investigating.  

Officers responded overnight to a call of a person shot inside a residence in the Jackson Park neighborhood and found two people wounded, one fatally, Chicago police said. Shortly after 12:30 a.m. Saturday, officers were called to a residence in the 1700 block of East 67th Street and found a 23-year-old woman with gunshot wounds to the face and neck. She was taken in critical condition to UChicago Medicine. Another victim, also 23, was found with gunshot wounds to the abdomen and chest, and was taken to the same hospital where he was pronounced dead. No one was in custody […]

The Civilian Office of Police Accountability on Thursday released bodyworn camera footage of an October shootout between CPD officers and a suspect in West Rogers Park.