Overview

• A 45-year-old woman is charged with stabbing her three children in Logan Square—killing her 4-year-old son and critically injuring two siblings—before setting their home ablaze.
• In Back of the Yards, two gunmen opened fire into a crowd late Friday, wounding seven people, and near the Cook County Courthouse in Little Village a drive-by shooting injured four more, three of them critically.
• A targeted attack in Avalon Park killed a 16-year-old girl and wounded a 35-year-old man when a lone shooter approached and opened fire.
• Officers tracked and arrested a suspect in the Near North Side killing of a driver by following his getaway vehicle with cameras and license-plate readers after it crashed in the Loop.
• Chicago Police Department has made two high-profile arrests and is using increased surveillance, an interactive safety tracker and specialized detectives to pursue remaining shooters in response to a broader summer spike in gun violence.