Local Crime

A person showed up to the hospital with a gunshot wound after police say shots were fired at a house party in Gurnee early Monday morning. The Gurnee Police Department responded around 1:40 a.m. Monday to the 1500 block of Acorn Court in Gurnee. Read more...

At least 21 people were shot, one of them fatally, at a Juneteenth celebration in gun-controlled Illinois on Sunday morning around 12:30 a.m. CNN reported the shooting occurred “in a parking lot in Willowbrook, about 21 miles west of Chicago.” Read more...

A convicted felon, who is on probation for a gun charge, was arrested after he allegedly tossed a handgun into the grass while police were responding to a domestic in Vernon Hills. Tyler C. Linder, 28, of North Chicago, was charged with felon in possession of a firearm. Read more...

A 16-year-old boy was hospitalized after he was shot in the face possibly near his home in Waukegan early Saturday morning. The Waukegan Police Department responded around 1:40 a.m. Saturday to Vista Medical Center East, 1324 North Sheridan Road in Waukegan. Read more...

A Waukegan man has been charged with possessing and displaying a gun just before two shootings near a gas station in Waukegan that left three people shot. Darrieus Jackson, 34, of Waukegan, was charged with aggravated unlawful use of a weapon. Read more...

A Wisconsin man, who was allegedly driving drunk with a child and stolen guns in his car, was arrested after he caused a crash that left two injured in Highland Park. Abdur-Razzaq Musaqddiq, 49, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was charged with unlawful possession of a weapon by a felon, child endangerment, driving under the influence of [...]

Police are investigating the homicide of a 21-year-old man who died after he was shot in the head in front of a food store in Waukegan Sunday evening. The Waukegan Police Department and Waukegan Fire Department responded around 7:16 p.m. Sunday to McAlister Avenue and May Street for a report of a shooting. Read more...

A woman kicked a police officer in the groin while resisting arrest and battered a second officer by striking him with her car door in Waukegan, prosecutors said. Jaireca Flournoy, 21, of Fox Lake, was charged with two counts of aggravated battery of a peace officer, a Class 2 felony. Read more...

A Mundelein man on parole for murder was arrested after authorities say he tried carjacking a grandfather at gunpoint while his grandchild was in the car in DuPage County. Anton Cross, 24, of Mundelein, was charged with attempted aggravated vehicular hijacking, aggravated unlawful use of a weapon by a felon and possession of a firearm [...]

Police arrested a man who allegedly tried bringing a loaded gun in a baby stroller into Six Flags Great America in Gurnee on Saturday, prosecutors said. The Gurnee Police Department was notified after security reported a person with a gun at the theme park. Read more...