Calumet Heights

Keith Beecher, 55, was reported missing on Monday, according to Chicago police. He is known to hang around the South and Far South sides.
He was shot by someone in a gray sedan in the 1700 block of East 95th Street, CPD said.
The 26-year-old was walking about 10:10 p.m. Monday in the 9000 block of South Dante when shots were fired from a passing black vehicle, police said.
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A man is facing felony drug charges after police seized more than three quarters of a million dollars worth of marijuana Wednesday in Calumet Heights.
At 1:40 a.m., the 24-year-old was walking in the 9500 block of South Crandon when a red Kia sedan drove by, police said.
The most recent death from gunfire was a man found shot to death at night in the West Pullman neighborhood.
At 7:09 p.m. Sunday, the woman stepped in front of a westbound vehicle as she walked outside of the crosswalk in the 1500 block of East 88th Street.
The eight shootings, reported from about 10 a.m. until 11:40 p.m., began with a homicide outside a business in the Rosemoor neighborhood, police said.
The 36-year-old was shot in the leg about 3:30 p.m. in the 1700 block of East 92nd Street, according to Chicago police.
Saturday’s lone gun homicide occurred during the evening in the Calumet Heights neighborhood on the Far South Side.
The man was inside his vehicle when another vehicle pulled up next to him and someone inside fired several shots.
Palmer’s efforts were foiled when a 71-year-old man with a concealed-carry permit shot him in the hand, police said.
A man was shot while trying to break into a home Thursday morning in the Calumet Heights neighborhood on the South Side.
At 2:26 a.m., the 25-year-old man and 18-year-old woman were shot from behind in the 1900 block of East 95th Street.
He was walking down 95th Street just east of Stony Island Avenue when two men in their early 20s approached him and started going through his pockets.
Roxanne Harmon, who also goes by “Roxy” and “Felicia Thomas,” was last seen Sept. 19 in the 8700 block of South Kenwood
The robberies occurred about 1:30 p.m. Monday, about noon on July 22 and about 3 p.m. on July 17 in the 2300 block of East 95th Street.
Three armed robbers held up a delivery driver at gunpoint Wednesday afternoon in the South Side Calumet Heights neighborhood.
Multiple people walked up to the 40-year-old at 7:28 p.m. and shot him in the 9300 block of South Luella, police said.
Anthony Carroll, 30, of Alabama is charged with reckless homicide in connection with a fatal crash April 10 in the Calumet Heights neighborhood.
Geraldine Muhammad-Sayles was last seen Friday in the 9100 block of Stony Island Avenue.
The shooting happened about 12:30 a.m. in the 9100 block of South Luella Avenue.
The 27-year-old accidentally shot himself in the leg while handling a gun.
About 11 p.m., the SWAT team was called in for a man who fired shots from a house and then barricaded himself in a garage.
The most recent shooting happened at 10:27 p.m. when a man was shot twice by someone he knew in the Washington Park neighborhood.
The 18-year-old was shot in the left shoulder about 6:50 p.m. when he heard shots in the 9400 block of South Stony Island, Chicago Police said.
A man with brain cancer who went missing early Friday from the Calumet Heights neighborhood on the South Side has been found.