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A popular South Side rapper, killed in a daylight shooting along the city’s ritziest shopping corridor.
A well-known and influential gang member, shot and killed while driving in a part of Humboldt Park that’s long been a hotbed for gang conflicts and open-air drug markets.
After three consecutive years of declining violence, Chicago’s murder tally soared in 2020 as city leaders including a new Chicago police superintendent were forced to confront widespread civil unrest and the COVID-19 pandemic.
As of Dec. 31, the city recorded 774 murders in 2020, an increase of more than 50% from the 506 murders in 2019, according to a database maintained by the Chicago Sun-Times. The uptick was felt across the city, as 20 of the CPD’s 22 police districts recorded more murders in 2020 than the year before. The number of overall shooting incidents skyrocketed, too, rising from 2,120 in 2019 to 3,237 as of Dec. 27, 2020.
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Chicago Chief of Detectives Brendan Deenihan was asked about the Chicago high murder rate. âItâs just been really challenging altogether on top of all the challenges detectives face when they are working these murder cases.â
In reference to 2020, Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown said that it has been âa year like no other.â The city is on track to break all-time murder records for the perpetually violent city.
As of yesterday, 739 people have been murdered in Chicago this year. That includes a 71-year-old woman who died after being shot multiple times in her home Sunday evening.
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CHICAGO Chicago police have arrested a second suspect believed to be part of a carjacking crew that killed a retired fire lieutenant on Dec. 3.
According to authorities, Dwain Williams was on the street just after 2 p.m. in the 2400 block of West 118th Street when a group of four suspects walked up and tried to forcefully take his vehicle, NBC Chicago reported.
Williams, 65, was fatally shot after the carjackers targeted his Jeep outside a store selling popcorn, police said. Williams retired from the Chicago Fire Department in 2018 after a long career.
Retired Chicago Fire Department Lt. Dwain Williams, 65, was murdered by carjackers Dec. 3, 2020. (Screenshot NBC Chicago)
Detectives working the homicide are seeking two other individuals.
Police said surveillance video showed Williams exchanging shots with three of four carjackers who rolled up on him after he bought popcorn.
The suspects fled the scene in the same vehicle they had arrived in, police said.
Williams’ daughter said the family was saddened after being told that a 15-year-old had been arrested, the Chicago Tribune reported. We are, of course, saddened that this was a child, Dakeeda Williams-Barton told the paper. I’m very disheartened that this was essentially a baby that has I don’t even know if they understand the repercussion their actions have caused.
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