Avalon Park

A man is accused of fighting police during a traffic stop Monday in Avalon Park on the South Side. Johnnie Coats, 25, is charged with felony counts of aggravated battery to a peace officer and resisting a peace officer, Chicago police said. Officers stopped a vehicle about 1:45 p.m. after reports of a man with a gun in the 7900 block…

A Chicago police officer was one of two people hospitalized after a traffic stop turned violent Monday afternoon in Avalon Park on the South Side. Officers were conducting a traffic stop about 1:45 p.m., after reports of a man with a gun, when a fight broke out between an officer and a male inside a vehicle in the 7900 block…

One person was killed and three injured after an individuals returned fire during a shooting Monday evening in Chicago’s Avalon Park neighborhood, according to reports. Police said two men were in a red Nissan Altima heading north in the 8400 block of South Cregier when two men on foot started firing shots at them at approximately 6:37 p.m. According to…

The Cook County state’s attorney’s office says it wants to drop charges against the mother of a woman shot dead in a convenience store so she “can mourn the loss of her daughter in peace.” Nyisha Beemon faces two misdemeanor counts of battery and resisting an officer after she allegedly kicked and pushed an officer at the emergency department...

Family members of an 18-year-old nursing student who was shot and killed Tuesday in Avalon Park came together Saturday to remember their loved one and call for justice. NBC 5’s Chris Hush reports.

Community members and church leaders came together Friday to remember a nursing student who was fatally shot at a food mart Tuesday. NBC 5’s Lexi Sutter reports.

More than two years after a Chicago Police Department SUV mysteriously crashed in a ditch on the South Side, city officials continue to fight the release of all records relating to the crash.

In the latest chapter of a two-year fight for answers, Judge Pamela Meyerson ruled Thursday that the Chicago Police Department must publicly release its investigation of a crash involving two of its officers. NBC 5’s Alex Maragos has the story.

Chicago police have released chilling footage of the moment that three suspects opened fire into a store in the city’s Avalon Park neighborhood, killing a woman and injuring several others. NBC 5’s Christian Farr reports.

Chicago police have released chilling footage of the moment that three suspects opened fire into a store in the city’s Avalon Park neighborhood, killing a woman and injuring several others. The footage shows the three suspects, identified as two men and a woman, walking up to the store’s front door in the 7900 block of South Avalon. The suspects...

One woman is dead and four others were in serious-to-critical condition after a shooting on Chicago’s South Side Tuesday evening. Authorities confirmed at a press conference that at around 5:20 p.m. Tuesday, two men and a woman got out of a vehicle near the intersection of 79th Street and Avalon Ave. in the city’s Avalon Park neighborhood, looked into...

One woman is dead and four others were in serious-to-critical condition after a shooting on Chicago’s South Side Tuesday evening. NBC 5’s Christian Farr reports.

More than two years after a Chicago Police Department SUV mysteriously crashed in a ditch on the South Side, city officials continue to fight the release of all records relating to the crash. NBC 5’s Alex Maragos investigates.

More than two years after a Chicago Police Department SUV mysteriously crashed in a ditch on the South Side, city officials continue to fight the release of all records relating to the crash.

Chicago now gives at-risk inmates the overdose-reversing drug naloxone upon their release from jail and Los Angeles is poised to follow suit, putting the antidote in as many hands as possible as part of a multifaceted approach to combatting the nation’s opioid epidemic.

Police say they’re talking to a person of interest but have yet to identify a suspect after eight people were sent to the hospital Saturday due to suspected heroin overdoses.

Police say they’re talking to a person of interest but have yet to identify a suspect after eight people were sent to the hospital Saturday due to suspected heroin overdoses. Chris Hush reports.

A Chicago Police SWAT team has responded to a home in the South Side Avalon Park neighborhood Thursday morning after a man barricaded himself inside.