Calumet Heights
“It’s pretty simple: Children are getting a hold of the guns and shooting themselves or turning it on their brothers and sisters accidentally,” Andrew Holmes said Monday
The Bronzeville Children’s Museum celebrates the start of the seven-day holiday commemorating African American culture by studying the seven principles. First; unity.
The boy was in a car in the the 8500 block of S. South Chicago Avenue when someone fired shots, police said.
The teen was in a vehicle about 11:42 a.m. in the 1700 block of East 95th Street when someone opened fire. He was hospitalized in good condition.
Telisa Pratt, 28, is charged with attempted murder in the Nov. 13 shooting.
The woman was sitting in a parked car in the 1300 block of East 89th Street when four men approached her, police said.
Police said the girl was shot while walking in the 8900 block of South Chicago Avenue.
One of the robbers suffered a gunshot wounded that was not considered life-threatening, police said.
A 14-year-old girl and a 16-year-old boy were taken to Comer Children’s Hospital in fair condition.
The company, now 25 years old, has begun offering workshops at the Mayfair Arts Center in Calumet Heights.
About 10:45 a.m., he was inside a home in the 9300 block of South Escanaba Avenue, when he was shot in the back.
The fund was created by the mayor’s predecessor, Rahm Emanuel. Developers are allowed to build bigger and taller projects downtown if they pay into the fund, which focuses on long-neglected South and West side neighborhoods.
In each incident victims were robbed of their cellphone as they approached restaurants to pick up food.
The officer was in his personal vehicle, stopped at a traffic light, when two gunmen came up and fired into his vehicle.
They were on the sidewalk in the 9200 block of South Blackstone Avenue when someone opened fire, police said
The male tried to rob the woman, 39, at gunpoint about 6 p.m. in the 9000 block of South East End Avenue, but another male saw what was happening, walked up and fired shots of his own, Chicago police said.
A woman told officers she was inside a home in the 1300 block of East 89th Street when she heard gunshots and found a 3-year-old girl with a gunshot wound to her left wrist.
About 8 p.m., someone approached the officer with a gun in the 1600 block of East 95th Street and demanded her Kia, police said.
Someone in a vehicle fired shots at the trio about 3:20 p.m. in the 1900 block of East 95th Street, Chicago police said.
His death was ruled an accident.
The woman’s teenage grandson, whom she was letting into the home, told authorities he may have been the shooter’s intended target.
Chicago police say a group of children, ages 10 to 17, have been wreaking havoc on the generally peaceful South Side neighborhood.
The two victims had complained about the beeping sensor on the Divvy bike the gunman had kept in the yard, prosecutors said.
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