Story gallery: Student deaths mount

Slain teenager sought right path, family says

After nine months as a dropout, Marcus Greer told administrators at his new alternative high school that he was determined to get his life together, graduate and stay out of trouble.

Man charged in fatal beating of teen

Nathaniel Tucker, who will turn 23 on Tuesday, has been charged with one count of first-degree murder in the beating death of Albert Vaughn, according to Cook County state's attorney's office spokesman Andy Conklin. Tucker, of the 7900 block of South Luella Avenue, is scheduled to appear for a bond hearing Tuesday. Details to come.

Hundreds mourn slain student

Hundreds of teenagers packed a South Side church Saturday to pay final respects to Chavez Clarke, an 18-year-old student who was gunned down exactly a week before outside Simeon Career Academy.

West Side

West Side teen killed in shooting

Chicago police are investigating the slaying of a 15-year-old West Side youth who was fatally shot a block from his home Friday night.

Gage Park teen killed in drive-by shooting

Over the years Salvador "Chava" Contreras would sit down with his parents and his older brothers and promise them that he would not be sucked into the gang life that has claimed so many others in their Gage Park neighborhood.

Teen gunned down near Lawndale home

An 18-year-old man was fatally shot in the head over the weekend in the Lawndale neighborhood on Chicago's West Side.

1 student killed in brawl outside high school

Each morning and afternoon, a dozen or so Chicago police officers and school officials watch over the crowds of students at Crane Tech High School, hoping their presence might keep the peace.

Woman sought in teen's shooting death turns self in to cops

A woman being sought in the fatal shooting of a teenage girl on Chicago's West Side over the weekend turned herself in to police Wednesday after her family sought the help of a local pastor.

3 kids die, 5 hurt in rash of shootings

Kadeidrah Marsh spent most of Sunday shopping with her mother and a sister, buying groceries and furniture, her family said.

2 killed in shootings; man charged in fatal stabbing

Chicago police on Saturday were investigating the deaths of two teenagers in separate gang-related shootings.

1 teen killed, 1 hurt in gas station shooting

A boy was killed and a man was wounded in a shooting Tuesday evening on Chicago's South Side, police said Wednesday.

2 slain, 3 injured in Little Village

Two men were fatally stabbed and three others were injured when a fight broke out Saturday night in an apartment in Chicago's Little Village neighborhood, police said.

Cops say teen was targeted, killed by gang

Roky Uriostegui didn't want to be a gang member, and he didn't want to get beat up, either. So when the gangs at his high school last year harassed him, he transferred schools, instead.

Candles, roses and tears for teen

On the sidewalk near his home, Leonardo Otero's blood stains the concrete.

School mourns another slaying

Miguel Gomez, a resident of the violence-plagued Little Village neighborhood, was a troubled teen whose counselors and family members were trying to get him on the right track.

Slain boy's family, community mourn

Parishioners were used to seeing Arthur Jones' smiling face beaming from the second row in Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church, where he first expressed his desire to be a pastor.

Teen shot defending friend

Big for his age, Samuel "Sammy" Benavente, 14, stuck up for his friend Sunday evening when an older boy tried to steal the friend's bicycle in the Chicago Lawn neighborhood, Sammy's family said.

Cops probe fatal shooting of teenager

Police on Saturday were investigating the shooting death of a teenager on the South Side.