Warrant names suspect in slaying of Chicago police officer

A Cook County judge issued an arrest warrant for an Aurora man in connection with the killing of Chicago police Officer Luis Huesca, according to court records. Xavier Tate Jr. was named in a first-degree murder warrant that ordered authorities to detain him, according to documents filed in Cook County Circuit Court Friday. A felony complaint accuses him of firing a .40 caliber handgun at Huesca, killing him. Huesca, 30 and a six-year veteran of the Chicago Police Department, was in Gage Park when he was shot multiple times on the 3100 block of West 56th Street while off-duty but […]

50 years for McKinley Park man convicted of 2016 killing Brighton Park teen, attorney general says

A McKinley Park man was sentenced to 50 years in prison Friday for the fatal 2016 drive-by shooting on the city’s Southwest Side, the office of Attorney General Kwame Raoul announced. A Cook County jury last December convicted Sergio Gonzalez, 29, of first-degree murder in the slaying of David Gonzalez, 17, court records show. Sergio Gonzalez and David Gonzalez, who each lived in the Brighton Park neighborhood, were not related, authorities said. Sergio Gonzalez and a second man, Jose Juarez, were charged with killing Gonzalez shortly after the shooting occurred in January 2016. Police said Sergio Gonzalez and Juarez were […]

Man dies after being found shot 20 times in Englewood

A man was pronounced dead overnight after being found lying on the ground critically wounded in the Englewood neighborhood, Chicago police said. Shortly after 2:30 a.m., officers responded to a call of shots fired and found an unresponsive man lying on the ground in the 200 block of West 72nd Street. The man was taken to UChicago Medicine after suffering about 20 gunshot wounds to the body, and was pronounced dead. No one was in custody for the attack, and detectives were investigating.