#fatal-shooting

#fatal-shooting

A Cook County jury on Friday found a Chicago man guilty of murdering the pregnant mother of his child, as well as his baby, who was delivered alive but only lived for days.Corey Deering, 42, a youth football coach in Englewood, was charged with murder in the fatal shooting of Stacey Jones, a Cook County probation officer who was eight months pregnant, and the death of the infant, known as Baby Boy Harrison.

More than 100 loved ones and community members let go of different colored and shaped balloons in the backyard of an elementary school in Calumet Heights to celebrate the "heavenly" birthday of fallen Chicago police Officer Aréanah Preston, who would have been 25 Wednesday.The celebration took place at Robert A. Black Magnet Elementary School, of which Preston was an alumni.

Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) have identified two 16-year-olds from Mississauga as the people killed west of Ottawa early Monday morning, and say they were shot.Officers said Monday they were called to an apartment building on Mackay Street in Pembroke just before 3 a.m., where they found two people who had been critically injured.

A 27-year-old Chicago man was found fatally wounded in a vehicle in Oak Brook after police and fire department personnel responded to a 911 call of a shooting near 22nd Street and Camden Court.Police said a 911 call came in about 12:05 a.m.Wednesday of an unconfirmed number of shots being fired into a vehicle.

In the months leading up to her shooting death, Stacey Jones, a Cook County probation officer who was eight months pregnant, told family and friends that the father of her unborn child threatened her and told her he didn't want more children, prosecutors alleged.But when she didn't get an abortion, Corey Deering, the father, who was married to another woman, "hatched a plan" to end her life, along with that of her child, Cook County Assistant State's Attorney Michelle Papa alleged during opening statements Tuesday at the Leighton Criminal Court building.

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Cops cuffed a 19-year-old man Friday in connection with a double shooting that occurred outside a hookah lounge in Homecrest last December.The male and female victims, both 19, were shot in the torso as they sat in a vehicle near 2430 Coney Island Ave. at about 12:15 a.m. on Dec. 19.

A state trooper was charged by the New York attorney general's office on Monday with killing an unarmed man in downtown Buffalo by fatally shooting him after a high-speed highway chase.The trooper, Anthony Nigro IV, a 15-year State Police veteran, was charged with first- and second-degree manslaughter in the death of James Huber, 38, on Feb. 12, 2022, the attorney general, Letitia James, said in a news release.

The head of the Chicago Police Department's reform efforts submitted her resignation this week, less than a year after her predecessor was fired from the same position.Records obtained by the Tribune show Tina Skahill, the executive director of the CPD's office of constitutional policing and reform, tendered her resignation from the department on Monday, with her departure to take effect on June 17.

A South Carolina convenience store owner has been charged with murder in the fatal shooting of a 14-year-old Black boy whom he falsely accused of shoplifting, chased and shot in the back on Sunday night, the authorities said.The store owner, Rick Chow, 58, who was charged on Monday, believed that the boy, Cyrus Carmack-Belton, had stolen four water bottles from his Xpress Mart Shell Station in Columbia, the Richland County Sheriff's Office said.

A 28-year-old Virginia man was charged with murder on Tuesday in the fatal shooting of a New Jersey councilwoman in February, the authorities said.The man, Rashid Ali Bynum, was taken into custody in Virginia Tuesday morning and was awaiting extradition, Yolanda Ciccone, the Middlesex County, N.J., prosecutor said at a news conference.