Don Babwin

Police said there had been a gathering at a home there when an argument began and shots were fired.

A 13-year-old Chicago boy appears to have dropped a handgun and begun raising his hands less than a second before a police officer shot and killed him last month, footage released Thursday under community pressure shows.

Police Superintendent David Brown said it "was not an organized protest" but instead "an incident of pure criminality" that began after the shooting of a person by police.

An argument outside a Chicago hospital turned deadly when a man pulled out a gun and killed an emergency room doctor with whom he was having a domestic relationship, then ran into the hospital and fatally shot a pharmacy resident and a police officer, authorities said.

Officer Jason Van Dyke was charged with first degree-murder in the October 2014 killing, but the judge allowed a finding of second-degree murder.

A Chicago police officer will not be charged in the shooting of a 25-year-old black man who authorities said was armed with a gun as he ran away from officers, prosecutors announced Monday, the same day the U.S. Justice Department opened an investigation into patterns of racial disparity in the use of force by Chicago police.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel fired Chicago’s police superintendent Tuesday, after the city’s police department came under fire for resisting, for more than a year, release of a video showing an officer shooting a teenager 16 times.

A northern Illinois police officer whose fatal shooting triggered a large manhunt carefully staged his death to make it look like he was killed in the line of duty and had been stealing for years from a youth program he oversaw, authorities said Wednesday.