Woman charged in fatal Chicago Lawn hit-and-run
Just before 9:30 p.m. on Tuesday, police said she was heading northbound in the 7000 block of South Western Avenue in a silver SUV when she hit a 75-year-old man in the street.
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Just before 9:30 p.m. on Tuesday, police said she was heading northbound in the 7000 block of South Western Avenue in a silver SUV when she hit a 75-year-old man in the street.
A 29-year-old woman has been arrested after a fatal attempted hit-and-run in Chicago Lawn Tuesday night.
A 29-year-old woman has been arrested after a fatal attempted hit-and-run in Chicago Lawn Tuesday night.
According to police, two groups of people were arguing before it turned into a fight. That's when Asia Boyd, 29, pulled out a sharp object and wounded multiple people.
Asia Boyd, 29, was arrested Saturday around 12:31 a.m. in the 7200 block of South Christiana Avenue.
It happened just after midnight in the 6200 block of South Kedzie Avenue.
Chicago police said two groups of people were arguing before it turned into a fight when a woman, 29, pulled out a sharp object and wounded multiple people.
Diamond Fleming, 21, was taken into custody on Friday just after 5 p.m. in the 6700 block of South Paxton Avenue.
The girl was not the only child who took the substance this week at McKay School in the Chicago Lawn neighborhood.
Tanja Safforld, 54, was hit by a silver sedan while crossing the street near 67th and Western on Nov. 20.
Someone came into a Dodge dealership on Western Avenue and shot both victims.
At 6:30 p.m., the 20-year-old man and the 50-year-old woman were in a Dodge dealership in the 7300 block of South Western Avenue when someone came in and shot them both.
Police said the woman drove away, but was taken into custody soon afterward.
Police said the man initially refused to get into a car with a woman, then jumped in front of the car after the woman drove off in it.
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The shooting happened in a house on West 59th Street in the Chicago Lawn neighborhood. Darius Johnson reports.
Police believe some kind of social gathering was going on in the house on 59th Street between Central Park and St. Louis avenues when the gunfire began. Darius Johnson reports.
Chicago Police Chief of Patrol Jon Hein has an update on a mass shooting in the Chicago Lawn neighborhood.
Witnesses said the shooting happened at a home in Chicago Lawn that had a lot of parties. Darius Johnson reports.
Two people were killed in the mass shooting in the Chicago Lawn neighborhood, and there may have been two more victims who dropped themselves off at another hospital. Darius Johnson reports.
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