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A Chicago mass shooting killed three people and injured five others on Monday, police said. The shooting happened at around 2:10 p.m. inside a home in the Chicago Lawn neighborhood in the ...
Don Henry and Kevin Ives, two Arkansas teenagers, were killed and their bodies placed on railroad tracks on August 23, 1987.At the time, the boys' deaths were controversially ruled accidental, but after Kevin Ives' body was exhumed and a second autopsy performed, the original examiner's ruling was overruled and the cause of death for Kevin Ives and Don Henry was changed from accidental to ...
On September 2, 2024, a mass shooting occurred aboard a Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) Blue Line train as it traveled between Oak Park station and Harlem station. Four people were killed at random. The alleged shooter was taken into custody and charged with four counts of first-degree murder.
Seven people were killed during a July 4 parade in Highland Park, Illinois. The quiet suburb with little to no gun violence is just 40 minutes from Chicago, where gun violence is a daily ...
Chicago saw a major rise in violent crime starting in the late 1960s. Murders in the city peaked in 1974, with 970 murders when the city's population was over three million, resulting in a murder rate of around 29 per 100,000, and again in 1992, with 943 murders when the city had fewer than three million people, resulting in a murder rate of 34 murders per 100,000 citizens.
It was a sad holiday weekend in Chicago this year. The sad statistics come in amid a still-raging coronavirus pandemic that has left Cook County with over 4,500 virus-related deaths. Mayor Lori ...
In the days since, guns have killed at least 2244 more people. Chicago has seen more recent gun deaths than any other city in the U.S. In a speech there, President Obama said "too many of our children are being taken away from us" as a result of gun violence.
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma: Shortly after a pursuit, Vincent was shot by a U.S. Marshal after she allegedly produced a gun. [19] 2023-05-24 Scott MacDonald Des Plaines, Illinois: Scott, who was mentally disturbed, was shot in a hallway at an apartment building when he came at an officer with an axe. [20] 2023-05-24 unidentified adult male: Geneva ...