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The woman, 38, was in a ‘verbal altercation’ with another person in the 400 block of West 61st Place about 2:40 p.m. Sunday when the other person shot at her, police said. A person of interest is in custody.
A 46-year-old woman was shot during the incident, police said.
The man suffered a gunshot wound to the head, police said.
Illinois State Police say the officer was at the scene of a crash on I-94 in Pullman when an Audi struck his police cruiser. The officer and the driver and passenger in the Audi were treated. The driver of the Audi was cited.
The man died at University of Chicago Medical Center, police said.
The woman, 49, was sitting on the porch of a residence in the 11800 block of South Indiana Avenue about 9:33 p.m. when a man in a dark SUV fired shots, police said.
The woman was inside a car when someone fired shots from the alley, police said.
A 16-year-old boy was in a park in the 700 block of East 53rd Street about 7:46 p.m. when two people approached him and one shot him multiple times, police said.
A man, whose age wasn’t known, was on the street next to his vehicle in the 8100 block of South Escanaba Avenue about 8:13 p.m. when two people with firearms demanded his vehicle before fleeing with it, police said.
Officers responded to a call of shots fired in the 5200 block of South Shore Drive about 7:50 p.m. and found a person who had been shot, university police said.
Retired Chicago Fire Captain Paul McLaughlin tells Sneed the trouble really started that night in August 1968 “when Wallace threw a punch at my father, Fifth District Police Commander Paul McLaughlin.”
The man, 23, was in a parked vehicle in the 4600 block of South Damen Avenue about 3:30 p.m. when three people walked up and shot at him, police said.
“It just doesn’t really go along with anything in the story. It’s disappointing that they didn’t check stuff out before, it really isn’t anger it’s just, ‘why would you pick this picture?’”
The ride-hailing companies are introducing the programs to improve drivers’ safety. It comes three years after carjackings peaked in Chicago.
Police are questioning a person of interest in the shooting, that happened near a park on the city’s South Side.
An explosion in Aram Brunson’s dorm room last year led authorities to charge him with falsifying, concealing and covering up a material fact by trick, scheme or device and making false statements to federal officials, according to a federal complaint.
Nicholas Hughes was on his way to work on Aug. 16 when armed assailants approached him and shot him, police said. His mother, Nickole Smith, is raising money to pay for his funeral and burial.
Officers saw the men unloading merchandise from a train and putting it into a truck in the 6300 block of South Wentworth Avenue around 1:30 a.m., Chicago police said.
The Chicago Transit Authority announced Thursday that it is one month into a year-long pilot program with ZeroEyes, a company that uses artificial intelligence to identify guns in surveillance video and alert police.
The 27-year-old woman was in her car with another woman in the 7000 block of South Vernon Avenue when they were attacked, police said.