Crime News Chicago

Boy shoots himself; barricade situation in Gresham | June 13, 2018

By Alice Bazerghi

Police investigate a person shot multiple times Tuesday morning in the fist block of Marquette Road. | Tyler LaRiviere/Sun-Times

Welcome to our morning article rounding up crime (and more) happenings from around the Chicago area overnight.

A man was killed and three other people were wounded in shootings across the city Tuesday, including a 14-year-old boy who shot himself in Little Village and a 28-year-old man shot while sitting on a Humboldt Park porch.

Police investigate a person shot multiple times Tuesday morning in the fist block of Marquette Road. | Tyler LaRiviere/Sun-Times

A 36-year-old man was in custody after a SWAT team responded to a call of a person barricaded in a house in the Gresham neighborhood.

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