Armani Dickinson, 19, was found lying on the ground shortly before 12:30 a.m. in an alley in the 5300 block of South Hermitage Avenue in the Back of the Yards neighborhood, Wednesday, March 23, 2016.
Dickinson was shot in the back of the head and pronounced dead at the scene, making him one of more than 130 people shot to death in Chicago in the first three months of 2016. The year finished with 781 homicides, the most in a single year since 1996. | Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times
Hundreds of mourners gather in the parking lot of Stroger Hospital after a 40-year-old man was shot to death in the 700 block of North Spaulding Avenue on Memorial Day, Monday night, May 31, 2021. | Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times
Family members watch as Chicago police investigate in the 5700 block of South Carpenter Street, where 24-year-old Tmario Devonte Boughton was shot to death during a party on the Englewood neighborhood block on the South Side, early Sunday, May 29, 2022. | Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times
Family mourns after man shot to death during Englewood block party: ‘This one hurt my soul’
Miyanda Rainey (left) hugs a supporter during a vigil for her 22-year-old twin sister, Dyanla Rainey, outside their home in the 700 block of South 6th Avenue in Maywood, Monday evening, July 25, 2022. Dyanla Rainey, who played basketball at Robert Morris University and was known as "DeDe," was shot to death Sunday in the driveway of her home. | Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times
Former Marshall basketball standout Dyanla Rainey shot and killed in her driveway
Nine people were wounded in a mass shooting about 3:15 a.m. in the 3300 block of West Douglas Boulevard in the Lawndale neighborhood on the Southwest Side, Sunday, June 11, 2017.
With temperatures pushing into the 90s, a group of up to 50 people was gathered on the block, listening to music and drinking, when a black vehicle approached and someone inside opened fire. At least 30 shell casings could be seen in the street and on the sidewalk. | Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times
A woman cries as hundreds of mourners gather for a vigil in a parking lot in the 2000 block of South Wells Street in Chinatown, where Huayi Bian, 36, and Weizhong Xiong, 38, were shot to death, Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2020.
Bian and Xiong were killed during an apparent robbery, for which Alvin Thomas faces two counts of first-degree murder. | Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times
Jesus Juarez, 43, was standing on the sidewalk shortly before midnight outside Express Grill at South Halsted and West 18th streets, when a male fired shots from a silver SUV, Tuesday, May 3, 2016.
Juarez was shot in the chest and died at the scene. A 35-year-old man was shot in the left knee and taken to Stroger Hospital, where his condition was stabilized.
Tomislav Lazarevski, 24, whose father owns Express Grill, said he and another employee were inside the 24-hour, walk-up restaurant at the time of the shooting. He said the victims were in a small group that approached the window, but before they could order, the men started looking around.
"That's when shots were fired," Lazarevski said, adding that he heard five or six gunshots come from the passing vehicle. | Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times
A woman reacts at the scene of a mass shooting during a barbecue in the 300 block of West 42nd Street in the Fuller Park neighborhood on the South Side, early Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2015.
Ayanna Northern, 22, Antian Hardmon, 25, and 28-year-old Tyrone Spikes were all killed and two others, a 24-year-old woman and 30-year-old man, were injured when a gunman opened fire on a group of people at the barbecue.
A woman at the scene who asked to be identified only as “Shorty” said she held Northern, who was shot in the chest, in her arms before she died.
“She said, ‘Help me,’ her eyes glazed over, and that was it.” | Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times
Three shot to death at Fuller Park barbecue: ‘Her face is etched in my mind’
Michael Holder, 34, was shot in the head and torso about 1:30 a.m. while he was standing in the street in the 1100 block of North Ridgeway Avenue on the West Side, Tuesday, July 5, 2016.
Two women Holder was talking to were also wounded in the shooting, police said at the time. Brandon Collins, 31, was eventually charged with one count of first-degree murder and two counts of attempted first-degree murder. | Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times
4 killed, 3 kids among 62 wounded in July 4 weekend shootings
Jalisa Hooks, 21, plays with her 2-year-old son, Kayden Swann, in the family's South Chicago neighborhood apartment on the South Side, Tuesday morning, March 1, 2022.
Kayden is blind in his right eye after he was shot in the head on April 6, 2021, during a road rage incident on Lake Shore Drive near Grant Park. | Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times
Almost a year after he was shot in the head on DuSable Lake Shore Drive, Kayden Swann is thriving
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