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Chicagoist Crime Blotter: Chicago Logged Its 250th Homicide Of 2013

By Chuck Sudo in News on Aug 12, 2013 9:30PM


  • Chicago logged its 250th homicide of 2013 over the weekend when an 18-year-old was shot to death in Woodlawn. [RedEye]

  • Cook County correctional officer Edgard Singleton was charged with murder after allegedly shooting a man in a road rage incident in Hammond, Ind. [Times of Northwest Indiana]

  • Bond was denied for Larry Cox, charged with the shooting deaths of Chavonne Brown and her son Sterling Sims. [Homicide Watch/Sun-Times]

  • A 4-year-old girl was injured during a drive-by shooting in Portage Park. [DNAInfo Chicago]

  • Randall Sinks of Elgin was sentenced to six years in prison for beating his ex-wife's boyfriend with a pipe. Sinks then tried to step in front of a truck in a suicide attempt. [Daily Herald]