Man charged in fatal shootings of 4 at Chicago restaurant lost his father a day prior
CHICAGO — A 19-year-old man charged with murder in the likely gang-related killings of four men on Chicago's South Side had lost his father in another shooting a day earlier in the same neighborhood, police said Wednesday, April 5th.
Chicago police to saturate neighborhood where 7 killed
CHICAGO — The gun violence in one South Side Chicago neighborhood that left seven dead in a 12-hour period was mostly due to gang conflict, Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson said Friday.On Thursday afternoon, four people were fatally shot in or near a restaurant after a man approached and opened fire.
Photo showing toddler with finger on trigger of gun sparks outrage, concern in Chicago area
CHICAGO -- Chicago police are investigating a photo posted on social media that shows a toddler holding a gun.
Family says missing Chicago teen was sexually assaulted on Facebook Live
UPDATE: The missing 15-year-old girl has been found.CHICAGO – Police are investigating after the family of a missing Chicago teen says she was sexually assaulted on Facebook Live.Family members and friends of the 15-year-old girl say they saw her on a video being sexually assaulted by several boys.Her mother says she's distraught and worried because it’s been more than 24 hours since she last saw her daughter.
Chicago's lack of snow in 2017 sets 146-year record
CHICAGO — Chicago hasn't logged any snow on the ground in January or February for the first time in the 146 years that the National Weather Service has been keeping track.Traces have fallen, but not enough to record.
Suspects accused of torturing man in Facebook Live video get death threats, lawyer says
CHICAGO – The suspects accused of torturing a schizophrenic man and streaming it live on Facebook are now being threatened, one of their attorneys said at a court hearing Friday.During the indictment, the judge tightened restrictions on news coverage of the case, according to WGN-TV.
Nearly $158,000 raised for Chicago-area beating victim
CHICAGO — People from across the U.S. have sent gifts and nearly $158,000 has been raised for a white Chicago-area mentally disabled teenager who was shown live on Facebook being beaten by four black people.A spokesman for the youth's family tells the Chicago Tribune that the outpouring has been "heartwarming." Neal Strom says several groups have reached out since last week's incident, including police officers from Buffalo, New York.Strom said he is working with the victim's family to manage proceeds from the online fundraising effort .
Judge refuses to release 4 accused of beating disabled youth
CHICAGO — A Chicago judge has refused to allow four black people recorded by a cellphone taunting and beating a mentally disabled white youth to leave jail, saying they are accused of such "terrible actions" that they are a danger to society.Cook County Circuit Judge Maria Kuriakos Ciesil rebuked them during a Friday court appearance, asking: "Where was your sense of decency?"The beating of an 18-year-old youth was captured on video by one of the assailants and has since been viewed millions of times on social media.
GoFundMe for victim tortured on Facebook Live reaches more than $70K
CHICAGO -- Donations for the mentally disabled victim who was bound, beaten and tortured during a Facebook Live broadcast in Chicago surpassed $70,000 on the website GoFundMe Friday evening.Bartlett Jackson, a GoFundMe regional communications manager, confirmed to the Associated Press that the account is legitimate, and that the creator has been working with the young man's family.The GoFundMe campaign called "Let's show the Chicago victim love", which had raised over $44,000 as of Friday morning, reached $70,000 from more than 2,400 donors that evening.Suspects Jordan Hill, Tesfaye Cooper and Brittany Covington, all 18 years old, and 24-year-old Tanishia Covington, are charged with battery, kidnapping and hate crimes in connection to the attack of the 18-year-old victim.Authorities say the suspects tied up the 18-year-old, who is from a Chicago suburb, for four to five hours.
4 charged with hate crime in Facebook Live torture of man with special needs
CHICAGO — Four suspects have been charged in connection with the attack on a special-needs teen that was streamed on Facebook Live.Jordan Hill, 18; Tesfaye Cooper; 18; Brittany Covington, 18; and Tanishia Covington, 24, have each been charged with a hate crime, felony aggravated kidnapping, aggravated unlawful restraint and aggravated battery with a deadly weapon.Hill, Cooper and Brittany Covington also face charges of residential burglary.
94-year-old woman beaten, robbed inside her Chicago home
CHICAGO -- Chicago officials are searching for a man who attacked a 94-year-old woman on Chicago's Southwest Side.According to WGN, Josephine Regnier, 94, is in serious but stable condition at a hospital after she was robbed and beaten in her home located near South Long Avenue and West 51st -- in the Garfield Ridge neighborhood in Chicago.
Chicago students allegedly forced to fight in classroom
CHICAGO - Chicago police are investigating after a fight between children inside an elementary school classroom was caught on video and posted to social media.
Disturbing video shows Chicago man beaten as bystanders yell ‘Don’t vote Trump!’
CHICAGO -- Chicago police are now reviewing shocking video from the city's West Side that shows several people pulling a man out of his car and attacking him.The victim, identified as 49-year-old David Wilcox, told the Chicago Tribune that Wednesday's violence started with a minor car accident.Wilcox said one of his attackers was driving a black sedan that scraped the side of his Pontiac Bonneville."I stopped and parked.
At least 17 dead in Chicago's street violence over weekend
CHICAGO — At least 17 people were killed and over 40 injured in Chicago's street violence over the weekend.Two Chicago newspapers that analyzed police data from Friday afternoon to early Monday called it 2016's deadliest weekend.
Chicago cop says she was afraid to use gun while being severely beaten
CHICAGO – A police officer who is now recovering in the hospital after being badly beaten by an unhinged man said she was afraid to use her weapon because of the scrutiny she would have faced, according to Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson.The officer, publicly identified only as a 17-year veteran, was responding to a car crash in the suburban neighborhood of Austin Wednesday when the attack happened.The officer tried to talk to one of the drivers involved in the crash, a 28-year-old man believed to be high on PCP, when he became violent and struggled with them, Johnson said.
Doctors save baby of pregnant woman gunned down in Chicago; baby named "Miracle"
CHICAGO -- Doctors saved the baby of a pregnant woman who was shot and killed in the South Chicago neighborhood.19-year-old Parasha Beard was sitting in a car with a 26-year-old man at 87th and Marquette around 6:10 p.m. Sunday, September 18th when someone pulled up in another car and opened fire.Beard was shot in the neck, and the man was shot in the neck and chest.She was pronounced dead at Northwestern Hospital, and the man remains hospitalized in critical condition.Beard's family learned that doctors were able to save her baby, who wasn't due until December.
Elderly man robbed, shot while watering lawn in Chicago: "Ridiculous -- You're not even safe in your own yard"
CHICAGO -- A man in Chicago was shot while out watering his lawn -- and the incident was caught on camera.Bullet casings were found scattered on a sun-baked block at 71st and California on Chicago's south side."I heard the gunshot and I ran out here and he was, like, dazed in the street," Lois Walker said.Surveillance video from a neighbor's home shows exactly that.71-year-old Frederico LaGuardia was out watering his front lawn when two men on bicycles rode up and robbed him of his wallet before firing a shot into his abdomen.The video shows the garden hose going airborne -- and the suspects pedaled off."It's just absolutely ridiculous.
Dwyane Wade's cousin shot to death while pushing baby stroller
CHICAGO – A Chicago woman related to professional basketball player Dwyane Wade was shot and killed on Chicago's South Side Friday afternoon.
"Suspicious in nature:" Police question person of interest after man, children killed in fire in Chicago
CHICAGO -- Police are questioning an individual in connection with a large fire that happened Tuesday, August 23rd at an apartment building which killed a man and three children.The fire started early Tuesday morning in an apartment building near 81st and South Essex Avenue in the South Chicago neighborhood.According to WGN, a 36-year-old father jumped from a third-story window with his infant daughter in his arms.
Landspout near Midway Airport: Chicago records first tornado within city limits since 2006
CHICAGO -- Officials with the National Weather Service, and FOX6's sister station WGN in Chicago say the city recorded its first tornado within city limits since September of 2006 this week -- on Tuesday, August 9th.According to the National Weather Service, a "landspout" formed on a lake breeze boundary on Tuesday afternoon around 4:00 p.m.The National Weather Service says the landspout was spotted by Melanie Harnacke, an FAA contract observer on duty at Midway Airport.It was estimated to have begun at 3:48 p.m. and it dissipated by 3:58 p.m.The National Weather Service reports this was the first tornado within Chicago city limits since a brief F-0 on the campus of Loyola University on September 22nd, 2006.The National Weather Service describes a landspout as follows:"A landspout is a tornado with a narrow, rope-like condensation funnel that forms while the thunderstorm cloud is still growing and there is no rotating updraft - the spinning motion originates near the ground.