Kabiru Adewunmi, a 16-year-old member of the Chicago Fire's Juniors North team, was shot and killed Tuesday night in a Chatham convenience store. more ›

Recently, authorities in Cape Town met with Dr. Gary Slutkin, the founder of CeaseFire, in order to figure out a way to quell gang violence in and around Cape Town. Members of the South African community attended workshops to discuss bringing a "pilot project" to Cape Town in the near future that would be modeled after Chicago's own methods. more ›

On Aug. 17, as part of the Chicago Gang Violence Reduction Initiative, Chicago Police Supt. Jody Weis and other law enforcement officials held a meeting at the Garfield Park Conservatory with leaders of multiple West Side street gangs to deliver a message. "They said they would get us if we don't stop the killing," Labar "Bro Man" Spann, a Four Corner Hustlers gang leader who attended the meeting, said to the Chicago Sun-Times. more ›

• Nicole Abusharif was convicted today by a DuPage jury in the death of her former lover, Rebecca Klein; she faces a sentence of up to 60 years.
• State health officials have confirmed 82 cases of the swine flu state-wide.
• An August date has been set as the start for the trial of James Degorski, the latest suspect to face trial in the 1993 Brown's Chicken killings.

Earlier today we mentioned the arrest of Martin Ybarra, the man accused of killing three Southeast Side teenagers last week. Court documents released today outline what happened and it appears as if, in a very cruel twist of fate, none of the three boys killed were his intended target. Ybarra was aiming at a gang rival but missed, instead shooting Raheem Washington who was hit five times. Then, flee, Ybarra hopped in a car and fired again and, once again, missed his target and hit Kendrick Pitts, who was with the target, and also struck Johnny Edwards, who seems to have been simply walking home from school with a brother. The detailed documents were released at a hearing today at which Judge Maura Slattery Boyle denied bail for Ybarra. more ›

Chicago Police have made an arrest in connection with Friday's gang-related triple homicide on the Southeast Side. Asst. Police Supt. James Jackson wouldn't confirm much other than that they've taken into custody a "young adult" over the age of 18 who's also a gang member they believe may be the shooter. Jackson also refused to officially call the killings gang-related, saying only, "There are several different theories. The investigation is still going forward, this is by no means over. At this point we don't want to put too much out.'' more ›

Chicago Police have confirmed that they are currently holding a "person of interest" in connection with Friday's shooting on the South Side that killed three teenagers. Johnny Edwards, 13, a 7th-grader at Arnold Mireles Academy, Raheem Washington, 15, and Kendrick Pitts, 17, were killed Friday afternoon when gunfire broke out near the intersection of East 87th Street and South Exchange Avenue. Police believe the shootings were gang-related and have received several tips from neighborhood residents. more ›

Damn. Just...damn. That's all we can say when we read these kinds of stories. On the heels of this weekend's shooting of Eternity Gaddy (who died yesterday morning), 10-year-old Nequiel Fowler was shot dead Monday afternoon outside her home in the 8700 block of South Exchange Avenue. She had bent over to tie the shoe of her blind sister, Valerie, 5, when the bullet struck. Nequiel's mother, Linda Williams, described finding her daughter:

At first I thought both of my daughters were hurt because they both were wearing hair beads...Then I ran out and found Nee-Nee laying on the ground.