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Published on: Apr 20, 2021, 12:00 PM Chicago, IL – A Chicago rapper named Jontae Adams — who’s part of the duo Tilla & Bully Bino — is reportedly feeling the repercussions of his alleged gang lifestyle. According to the Associated Press, the 29-year-old Adams was the intended target of a shooting at a local McDonald’s drive-thru but instead, the suspects wound up fatally shooting his 7-year-old daughter Jaslyn. Witnesses at the scene say a vehicle pulled up to Adams’ grey Infinity, two men hopped out and started obliterating the car with bullets. Six bullets struck the little g...

Church at 38th and Chicago reaches out to gang members nearby Worldwide Outreach for Christ has countered rising and ebbing gang influence at 38th and Chicago for nearly 40 years.  April 9, 2021 — 1:24pm Text size Copy shortlink: Halfway through Pastor Curtis Farrar's Sunday service in the parking lot of his church at 38th Street and Chicago Avenue, he quit talking to the congregation and spoke directly to the men who stand at the intersection's northeast corner day after day. "Young man across the street, I told the Lord I will ...

Byron Merriweather was 17 when he shot a man at Miller Park during a 2003 fight between rival Twin City gangs, a crime that netted the teen 70 years in prison. Merriweather, now 35, was in court on Friday for a new sentencing hearing ordered by the Fourth District Appellate Court. Merriweather was sentenced prior to several U.S. Supreme Court rulings and a decision by the Illinois Supreme Court on the issue of what amounts to life sentences for juveniles. Judge Casey Costigan heard three hours of testimony—some of it emotional—from Merriweather’s family and a childhood friend who now su...

Over the last three decades, Chicago police have listed about 33,000 juveniles as members of street gangs, some as young as 10, according to the latest release of data from the department's controversial tracking system.

Sun-Times file A defense attorney for a man facing a murder charge in connection with a Bronzeville shooting told a Cook County judge Thursday the killing was done in self-defense. Prosecutors disagreed, saying 22-year-old Justen Jackson came up behind the victim, Marki Alsup, and shot him in the head. “I don’t see how that could be construed as self-defense,” Assistant State’s Attorney James Murphy told Judge Susana Ortiz at the hearing. Shortly before the shooting, Jackson’s uncle called him to Alsup’s girlfriend’s birthday party, prosecutors said. Inside, Jackson was greeted ...