The 13-year-old in question pleaded not guilty on Tuesday. Cook County judge, Cynthia Ramirez, ordered the unnamed suspect to remain in custody during proceedings and denied a request for electronic monitoring.
Police say Tyshawn's shooting resulted from a bloody conflict involving rival factions of two of Chicago's oldest gangs--the Gangster Disciples and the Black P Stones.
CHICAGO (AP) — A white Chicago police officer charged with murder in the shooting of a black teenager has been hired to work as a janitor for the city’s police union as he awaits trial, the union president said Thursday. Dean Angelo, president of the Fraternal Order of Police Chicago, says the union hired Jason […]
CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago police officer who fatally shot a bat-wielding college student and the student’s neighbor gave two versions of what happened — first telling detectives that the student held the baseball bat over his head then telling them two days later that the young man swung the bat at him. The police […]
Pierre Stokes, 25, was charged with three felony counts of aggravated battery for a shooting on March 8.
Dwight Boone-Doty, 22, was charged with murder Monday in the execution-style slaying of 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee.
CHICAGO (AP) — A federal judge again criticized the city of Chicago Thursday for how it dealt with a police-shooting video as he tossed a civil case against one of two officers involved in a fatal 2013 shooting of a black teenager suspected in a carjacking. Judge Robert Gettleman’s ruling cites video of Cedrick Chatman‘s […]
CHICAGO (AP) — The latest on Chicago police shootings, including one in 2014 in which an officer has been charged with murder for killing a teenager (all times local): 5:45 a.m. Chicago officials are expected to announce changes in police training, including a requirement that every officer responding to service calls be equipped with a […]
CHICAGO (AP) — The latest developments in the fallout from fatal police shootings in Chicago and a federal civil rights investigation into the city’s police department (all times local): 8:30 a.m. Demonstrators are planning to march through downtown Chicago’s high-end shopping district again to draw attention to the 2014 police killing of a black teenager […]
CHICAGO (AP) — An attorney for a white Chicago police officer charged with murder in the shooting death of a black teenager said he is considering asking for a change of venue because of comments Mayor Rahm Emanuel has made about his client. A court hearing was scheduled for Friday to formally read out the […]
CHICAGO (AP) — Janet Lindsey Ferguson has carried a poster bearing a photograph of her teenage son, Rickey Childs, ever since he was shot and killed by a Chicago police officer in 2012. She’s handed out fliers to drum up interest in his death and maybe get someone to believe that the gun police said […]
CHICAGO (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson is calling a video showing a white Chicago police officer fatally shooting a black teen “very disturbing.” And he says the city’s delay releasing the footage was “a failure of government.” Carson spoke Thursday in Chicago, where video of the 2014 shooting of Laquan McDonald released last […]
