Danroy Henry, 20, was a Pace University junior Defensive back football player who cops fatally shot early Sunday morning after he ran down officers during a brawl outside a Westchester County bar, police said. The chaotic chain of events began around 1:20 a.m., after a homecoming game celebration at Finnegan’s Grill in Thornwood, when officers responded […]
Watch out! Diggy Simmons is the newest addition to the hip hop community. He’s young, fresh, and has a lot to say over catchy beats. His latest song, titled ‘I Am He,’ is a freestyle recorded over the beat to Luper Fiasco‘s ‘Failure.’ With lyrics like, ‘stop treating a n**** like I’m in grade school […]
Cornell Henderson, 15, was shot and killed Sunday night in the Southwest Side’s Marquette Park neighborhood student at Chicago Vocational Career Academy. Henderson is from the 6800 block of South Campbell Avenue, he was pronounced dead at 9:09 p.m. according to a spokesman for the Cook County medical examiner’s office. Henderson suffered two gunshot wounds to […]
How does a 17 year old have this many weapons hidden under his bed? Jose Torres, 17, was arrested Thursday and charged with attempted manslaughter with a weapon. Anthony Alejandre, 12, of Deerfield Beach died at 2:30 p.m. at Broward General Medical Center, Broward Sheriff’s spokesman Mike Jachles said. Alejandre, who detectives say was shot in […]
Major Lazer is a collaborative effort between DJ/Producers Diplo and Switch who met while working with M.I.A. Major Lazer is a fictional cartoon character, who (according to press releases) fought as a Jamaican commando who lost his arm in a secret zombie war in 1984. He fights vampires and various monsters, parties hard, and has […]
Jamal Coates, 21, from Washington D.C. was attending the funeral of his friends sister when an altercation broke out leading to shot being fired. As the story goes tensions among the attendees started heating up, and Coates decided to do something about it. According to longtime Ward 1 activist Bryan Weaver, he asked people to […]
Jeremy Galmon, 2, was sitting a parked car nearby, when one shooter had exchanged gun fire with an occupant of a second vehicle on Dryades near First Street. Galmon died at 3:47 p.m. from a gunshot wound to the face after being taken to the LSU Trauma Center, the shooting happened around 2:30 p.m. The […]
Today marks one year since Fenger High School student Derrion Albert was beaten to death on his way home from classes. Anjanette Albert says her son would be a high school senior applying for college right now if a fight hadn’t broken out one year ago. Thursday, she invited ABC7 into her home to talk […]
I stood over a coffin that should never have been built. Motionless. Looking at a motionless body. A body of a sixteen-year-old kid. A kid half my age. Exactly half my age. A kid who had been hit over the head with a 2×4 and knocked out. Knocked out so badly that his body became […]
We come to you with a heavy heart today as we remember a young soul that was taking from this earth one year ago today. Young Derrion Albert, a Chicago honor student from Christian Fenger Academy High School, was the victim of a violent after school fight where things turned deadly and Derrion lost his […]
Mystery surrounds the case of George Lash, 19, who was returning home from visting friends from the south side of Chicago when a shooting happened on a train filled with passengers at the Garfield stop. Police say two officers opened fire on Lash claiming he pointed a gun at them and they had no choice but to […]
In CHICAGOLAND the violence never stops. Christopher Travis, 14, was fatally shot in the head at Emmett Till Math and Science Academy when 3 men inside a tan car drove by and began to open fire. Christopher, of the 6400-block of South Evans, was pronounced dead at 7:15 p.m. at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, according to the […]
