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Cheyenne Baez, 17, died after she was shot in the back about 1:15 a.m. in the courtyard of an apartment building on E. 128th St. in East Harlem, police said. ‘That’s my only daughter,’ said a woman who identified herself only as the slain girl’s mother. ‘She was just 17.’ The East Harlem gunplay also […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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An 11-year-old girl helping her mother baby-sit has been charged with murdering a 2-year-old, who suffered blunt-force trauma to the head, torso and buttocks, Georgia authorities say.  Police in Sandy Springs, just north of Atlanta, are holding the girl, whose name was not released, in juvenile detention after issuing warrants charging her with felony murder […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Michael Pierce, 12, was shot in the head by his older brother when they were playing around with a shot gun they found. The accidental shooting happened in the Roseland neighborhood on the Far South Side on the 50 block of East 103rd Street. Pierce was found shot in the head at home and was […]

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Adriana Avila, 14, left home about 9 p.m. Saturday to attend a party. She was found dead a few hours later. The 14 year was shot and killed at a neighborhood party, what has Avila’s family angry is that they don’t know how their daughter ended up at the party.  Adriana Avila was a freshman at […]

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Darryl McKinney was about to be a sophomore at Orr Academy. But now, his friends and family are planning his funeral. McKinney was an unintended target, gunned down in gang crossfire. ‘Every day they are dying and getting shot, the innocent bystanders. Why? Why so much violence? Can’t everybody just come to a compromise?’ sister […]