A jury deliberated for just over two hours Saturday, finding 27-year-old Donnell Flora guilty of first-degree murder, attempted murder and aggravated battery in the death of Endia Martin.
The boy, identified as Tyshawn Lee, was found in an alley not far from his grandmother's home with multiple gunshot wounds in the upper body.
A 20-year-old Chicago man with alleged gang ties was arrested Wednesday in the July 4th shooting death of 7-year-old Amari Brown, which sparked calls for gun reform from Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy, reports The Chicago Tribune. Rasheed Martin, 20, was arrested at a home in Superior, Wis., about 460 miles northwest of Chicago near the Wisconsin-Minnesota border, […]
Over the extended Memorial Day holiday weekend, a series of shootings in Chicago has left at least 56 people shot, including a 4-year-old girl. In the shootings, 12 people were killed and 44 others wounded. On May 22 alone, 10 people were shot that Friday across the Chicagoland area, according to the Chicago Tribune’s shootings […]
Chicago is a violent city but it’s not the murder capitol of the country. That’s according to a recent study by the Pew Research Center. A recent surge of killings in Chicago has drawn national attention to gun violence in the nation’s third-largest city. We’ve covered the situation in Chicago extensively here at NewsOne. Many consider Chicago to be […]
Following the bloody mass shooting incident at the Cornell Square Park shooting in September, students at the Richard J. Daley Elementary Academy in Chicago are exhibiting a creative way to cope with violence. Seventh-grade students went through an eight-week art program to help “send a clear message to the larger community about the impact these […]
First Lady Michelle Obama returned to Chicago on Wednesday to join Mayor Rahm Emmanuel and prominent business leaders in hopes of raising awareness and money for programs aimed at reducing deeply entrenched violent crime throughout the city. RELATED: Warzone 2012: Chicago Devastated By Gangs, Murder Making a powerful appeal to about 700 community, corporate and […]
As the nation mourns the death of 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton, the Chicago teen who just performed with the King College Prep High School drill team at the Inauguration of President Barack Obama, the White House issued a statement expressing condolences, reports the Los Angeles Times. “The president and first lady’s thoughts and prayers are with […]
