Chatham
A man and woman were arguing around 1:05 a.m. in the 8100 block of South Prairie Park Place when she heard a “loud noise suspected to be gunfire,” police said.
Police from Chicago and the suburbs paid respects, as did CPD Supt. Larry Snelling and Mayor Brandon Johnson. Officer Krystal Rivera was fatally shot by her partner June 5 during a foot pursuit in Chatham. Two people have been charged in connection with the shooting.
Officer Krystal Rivera, a four-year veteran of the CPD, was unintentionally shot and killed by her partner during a foot chase June 5 that ended in a Chatham apartment. Jaylin Arnold, 27, is now the second felon facing gun and drug charges.
A 15-year-old boy and a 33-year-old man were near an alley in the 7900 block of South Cottage Grove Avenue at 7:19 p.m. Monday when they were shot, police said. The man is in critical condition. The teen is in fair condition. No one is in custody.
Adrian Rucker, 25, of Freeport, was armed with a rifle when he encountered police Thursday night inside an apartment building in Chatham, police said. An officer then inadvertently fatally shot another cop, Krystal Rivera, police said.
Officer Krystal Rivera was excited to celebrate her daughter’s 11th birthday this weekend. But Rivera’s life was tragically cut short late Thursday, when she was fatally shot in the back by a bullet fired by another officer.
El Comité de Transporte del Concejo Municipal acordó dividir la propiedad para permitir que Walmart done su antiguo centro de capacitación a la Liga Urbana de Chicago y así ayudar a expandir su programación.
The City Council’s Transportation Committee agreed to subdivide the property to pave the way for Walmart to donate its former training facility to the Chicago Urban League to help expand its programming.
The victims, two boys aged 13 and 14 and a girl who is 16, were all taken to Comer Children’s Hospital where they were in good condition, police said.
The vehicle was hit twice by gunfire near 79th Street late Tuesday night. No injuries were reported.
The 15-year-old female student was shot outside Perspectives High School of Technology and Leadership Academy in Chatham Tuesday morning. She was taken to Comer Children’s Hospital in fair condition.
Qquavion L. Shaw, 19, was found unresponsive inside a home in the 800 block of East 82nd Street around 8:40 a.m., Chicago police said.
The 17 grant recipients can use the funds for building improvements and repairs.
Between 1959 and 1963, an elementary school class in West Chatham went from majority white to majority Black, and Next Voices columnist A.J. Sanders witnessed history playing out.
The boy is accused of robbing five people at gunpoint at different times June 4 in the South Chicago and Chatham neighborhoods. He was arrested Wednesday.
The man, 42, was sitting in a parked vehicle in the 400 block of East 87th Street at 2:49 a.m. when he heard a shot fired and felt pain, police said.
A shootout erupted around 10:20 p.m. when someone was trying to break into a vehicle in the 8700 block of South Dauphin Avenue and a 40-year-old concealed carry holder went outside to confront him, Chicago police said.
Officers found Franyerson David P. Morales, about 12:30 p.m. Saturday in the 700 block of East 80th Street with gunshot wounds to his head, back and arm. Morales, of the Loop, died at a hospital a few minutes later.
Officer Enrique Martinez was shot to death on the job Nov. 4 in Chatham. Mourners were asked to remember Martinez as more than a police officer. A former official said it was also important to think of the trauma of officers who were with Martinez when he was killed.