Chicago Homicide

A negligent life insurance company gave Muhammad Cheema motive for murder, the victim's family says.

Charges were dismissed in a 2004 Wrigleyville murder and a 1990 Daley Center rape.

"This is your lucky day," Martin Ruiz allegedly told mom and her son before shooting  Jaime Ruvalcaba. 

Friends recognized the man who allegedly walked up and shot Johnathon Hoskins in the back of the head.

Latonya Morris, 30, had been abused for years by the man she allegedly stabbed to death, attorney said.

Allegedly fingered by his partner in crime, Tywan Mason is charged in the 2012 murder of two men.

Gabriel Guardiola, 36, was held without bail after being charged with the murder of Ricardo Rivera.

A man accused of shooting 13-year-old Tyquan Tyler during a gang fued appeared in court Wednesday.

Police said they nabbed a third suspect in a 2009 shooting death on the Far South Side.

Gregorio Carmona, 35, was charged with starting the Northwest Side fire that killed Claudia Martinez, 36.

Before Richard Johnson was gunned down in August, he was about to become a father of twins.

Robert Munn, 29 years-old, was shot and killed after leaving his grandmother's apartment in September.

Musician Christopher Thomas, 28, was fatally shot outside Baba's restaurant Sunday night.