Chicagoist Weekend Blotter: Woman Charged With Strangling 8-Year-Old Granddaughter

By Chuck Sudo in News on Jul 15, 2013 10:00PM

Helen Ford (Chicago Police Department photo)

Helen Ford was charged in the strangling death of her 8-year-old granddaughter, Gizzell. [Sun-Times]
A high-speed chase involving a shooting suspect ended in tragedy Sunday when the suspect ran into a parked car occupied by Marisol Mercado. The single mother of five was killed. [Tribune]
Police are treating the beating of a lesbian couple in the Austin neighborhood by at least 10 men as a hate crime. One man has been charged so far in the incident. [Tribune]
The father of Elliot Frazier, an aide to Ald. Joe Moore (49th), opens up about his son's shooting death after an Independence Day picnic. [DNAInfo Chicago]
A man was killed and a woman seriously injured after they were shot while sitting in a parked car Sunday. [Homicide Watch/Sun-Times]