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Crime
According to records, Parsons-Salas was charged with first-degree murder in a 2009 Albany Park home invasion but the case against him was separated and a lesser sentence received after his codefendant confessed. He was paroled in October 2022.
Crime
Police charged Edwin Lagunas, 18, of the Edgewater neighborhood, in the shooting death of a 15-year-old girl and a 44-year-old man in November in the Austin neighborhood on the city's west side. A 38-year-old man was also seriously injured in the November 20 shooting.
News
The Chicago Archdiocese released a letter Saturday saying that a review board found “no reason to suspect” that the Rev. Michael Pfleger was guilty of the allegations. Pfleger had stepped away from his duties as pastor of St. Sabina Church in October during the review.
Crime
A Chicago Police Officer is in serious but stable condition recovering this morning after he was stabbed in the head while confronting a man threatening a woman in Roseland. Officers shot the man and he is in critical condition.
Crime
An argument that started in a bar and lounge in the Portage Park neighborhood spilled out onto the street and someone opened fire, killing three and leaving a fourth in critical condition.
Crime
The teen was shot around 3:15 p.m. on the city's west side near Michele Clark Prep High School.
Chicagoland News
Buffalo Grove Police Chief Brian Budds said evidence indicates 39-year-old Andrei Kisliak killed the others then himself.
Chicago News
Twelve people were hospitalized after a carbon monoxide leak just after 1:00 p.m. at a church on Chicago's South Side, fire officials said.
Crime
Moore was in the passenger seat of a family member’s car when three men fired on another vehicle and a bullet struck her in the back of the head. One of the men has 11 prior arrests.
Crime
Four people were shot, two of whom died, at a party in West Pullman in the early Saturday morning hours, authorities said.
Crime
Akeem Briscoe was apparently getting ready for bed on Oct. 26 when someone fired multiple shots in a nearby alley and a bullet struck the child in the abdomen, according to police. He later died at a hospital.
Chicago News
A Cook County Judge acquitted CPD Officer Melvina Bogard, 33, of aggravated battery and misconduct charges on Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2022, in relation to the February 2020 shooting and wounding of a man during a struggle at a downtown CTA train station.