murder charges

A North Chicago man was charged with fatally shooting 27-year-old Tommie Gatewood, who stood outside a Chicago liquor store to prevent it from being looted during civil unrest at the end of May, police said Thursday. Andrew Sneed, 36, was charged with first-degree murder in Gatewood’s death and two felony counts of aggravated battery for discharging a firearm, police said….

A suspect was charged with first degree murder Monday evening in the fatal shooting of a 7-year-old who was the innocent victim of gang crossfire on the Fourth of July, Chicago police said. NBC 5’s Susan Carlson reports.

A suspect was charged Thursday in the murders of two teenage boys in the South Chicago neighborhood last weekend, according to police. NBC 5’s Natalie Martinez reports

A 13-year-old and 15-year-old were both charged with the murder of a Chicago store clerk who was killed during a shootout with a group of robbery suspects Friday afternoon, police said. Four suspects entered the store about 1:45 p.m. in the first block of East 71st Street in the Park Manor neighborhood on the city’s South Side and took...

Cook County prosecutors dropped murder charges on Friday against a man who was framed as a teenager for a killing he didn’t commit in 1991. NBC 5’s Charlie Wojciechowski reports.