Brighton Park
Antonio Esquinca was last seen about 11 a.m. driving a silver 2015 GMC Terrain in the 2900 block of West 38th Street, Chicago police said.
The city launched Protect Chicago Plus to reach Black and Latino residents for inoculation, but residents from the communities left out of the initiative argue it should be expanded.
A 17-year-old boy was shot in the 1500 block of South Drake Street.
Lopez said the man was wanted for tagging much of the Brighton Park neighborhood.
In each incident, someone broke into homes through an unlocked door or garage and stole property.
In each incident two males walked into a business and demanded cell phones and money.
Three of the boys — ages 15, 16 and 17 — face a felony count each of vehicular highjacking with a firearm, police said.
In each incident someone broke into unlocked residences or garages and stole property.
She was hit in the head, but was able to drive off and seek treatment at a hospital, police say.
Officers found Rene Jaime-Saucedo with a gunshot wound to his leg on Sacramento Avenue.
Police said the incident began as a domestic argument.
Putting the headquarters in the park-starved area was part of former Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s plan to move key government buildings out of downtown and use those projects as catalysts to rebuild Chicago neighborhoods.
Jaycob Morales was last seen Tuesday in the 4200 block of South Richmond Street, police say.
He was driving a black sedan south on Western Avenue about 4 a.m., when he swerved in the 4600 block of South Western Avenue and struck a tree.
Lopez said his office has surveillance video of the incident and he is working with detectives to identify the individuals involved. He believes the vandalism was gang related.
Uriel Gurrola was on house arrest for a pending aggravated battery case when he killed Armando Reyes in 2017, prosecutors said.
Officers responded to a ShotSpotter alert about 10 a.m. in the 4400 block of South Campbell Avenue, and found the teen with a gunshot wound to his right leg.
Sarah Navas-Sallas, 6, and Nexy Castillo-Gonzalez were last seen Saturday evening in the 4400 lock of South Albany Avenue, police say.
Eduardo Pena is accused of chasing down Steven Garcia and shooting him in the back at a BP station at 39th Street and Archer Avenue.
His own Ring doorbell camera captured video of two offenders throwing three bricks through his front window. Now Ald. Ray Lopez wants that same technology to provide “thousands of new eyes” for Chicago Police officers.
Steven Garcia was shot in the chest and was pronounced dead at St. Anthony Hospital, authorities said
He was found unresponsive about 9:35 p.m. by officers responding to a shots fired call in the 3200 block of West 38th Place, Chicago police said.
About 1:15 p.m., three men, 19, 20 and 22, were in an alley in the 3000 block of West 44th Street when they were approached by a group of people who pulled out guns and opened fire, Chicago police said.
A girl believed to be no older than 10 years old was taken to Stroger Hospital in serious-to-critical condition, fire officials said. Two boys in their late teens were taken to Stroger and Mt. Sinai hospitals, also in serious-to-critical condition.
“The public is not being informed when field houses are shut down due to someone getting a positive COVID result,” park supervisor Venus Roman-Valino said.
Chicago police said someone broke two windows about 5 a.m. Thursday and shattered the glass front door.
A bomb squad x-rayed the shell and determined it was likely live.
The incident comes more than a week after someone threw a brick into Lopez’s Brighton Park home and set fire to a neighbor’s garage.
“I’ll be perfectly honest, I’m quite pissed,” Lopez told the Sun-Times.