A former Illinois sheriff’s deputy was sentenced Thursday to 20 years in prison for fatally shooting Sonya Massey, who had dialed 911 to report a possible prowler outside her Springfield home

John Shadbar, 72, of plead guilty Wednesday in Will County court to charges of attempted first-degree murder and a hate crime for the May 2024 shooting of his Lockport Heights neighbor.

Two federal officers fired shots during an encounter that killed ICU nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, a Customs and Border Protection official told Congress in a notice sent Tuesday

One person was shot and in critical condition Tuesday in a shooting involving the Border Patrol near the U.S.- Mexico border, authorities in Arizona said

Prominent Republicans and gun rights advocates helped elicit a White House turnabout this week after bristling over the administration’s characterization of Alex Pretti, the second person killed this month by a federal officer in Minneapolis, as responsible for his own death

Members of the Illinois Youth and Family Services agency gathered in sub-zero wind chills to hold a rally for peace and stop to gun violence on Richards Street in Joliet on Monday. Jan. 26, 2026. The rally came the day after a woman and 4-year-old boy were shot to death at a Joliet home.

Joliet police said they have in custody a man believed to be the shooter of the two victims. No charges had been filed as of late Sunday afternoon.

A growing number of Republicans are pressing for a deeper investigation into federal immigration tactics in Minnesota after a U.S. Border Patrol agent fatally shot a man in Minneapolis, a sign that the Trump administration’s accounting of events may face bipartisan scrutiny

The videos appear to contradict statements by the Trump administration, which said the shots were fired “defensively” against Pretti as he “approached” them with a gun

Family members say the man killed by a federal officer in Minneapolis on Saturday was an intensive care nurse at the Veterans Administration. Alex Pretti, 37, was a U.S. citizen, born in Illinois

From Capitol News Illinois: For the first time in at least a decade, there were no fatal interstate highway shootings in Illinois last year, Illinois State Police announced

Federal immigration officers shot and killed a man Saturday in Minneapolis, drawing hundreds of protesters in a city already shaken by another fatal shooting weeks earlier

A Joliet man was able to secure his release from jail in four of six felony cases because a Will County judge would lower the cash bond amounts, court records show.

A woman suffered a graze wound and two homes were struck by gunfire in a Joliet shooting on Thursday.

A 15-year-old suspect is in custody following the shooting of another 15-year-old in Joliet on Thursday

Addison police are investigating a shooting that happened late Thursday night on the 700 block of West Lake Street

A DeKalb man on electronic monitoring in a burglary case has now been charged with illegally possessing two guns and a stolen motor vehicle and driving the vehicle to a store in Willowbrook and stealing items

A federal officer shot a man in the leg in Minneapolis after being attacked with a shovel and broom handle while trying to make an arrest Wednesday, officials said

A Glendale Heights man has been charged with firing a bullet through the wall of his apartment into the neighboring apartment just inches from where four children, ages 4 to 14, were sleeping, authorities said

The woman shot and killed by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis on Wednesday was Renee Nicole Macklin Good, a 37-year-old mother of three who had recently moved to Minnesota

Joliet, along with Chicago, saw a major drop in homicides in 2025 compared to the previous years.

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said Wednesday that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who shot and killed a motorist acted recklessly and rejected federal officials claims that the officer had acted in self-defense

Officers responded to the shooting about Sunday in the 1100 block of Clement Street, said Joliet Police Sgt. Dwayne English.

Deaths of on-duty law enforcement officers in the U.S. decreased by nearly 25% in 2025, according to an annual report. Officer firearm fatalities dropped to 44, a 15% decrease from 52 in 2024, and the lowest number in at least a decade

A Will County judge ordered a Chicago felon charged with unlawful gun possession in Joliet to remain in jail under the SAFE-T Act.

A Homer Glen man is accused of recklessly firing a gun and Will County sheriff’s deputies recovered “hundreds of rounds” of ammunition in the investigation.

A Bolingbrook man has been charged with firing gunshots at two people on Christmas Eve after one of them confronted him over an alleged domestic battery incident.

During the investigation of the Joliet shooting, officers found a loaded handgun with an extended magazine and a spent shell casing, police said.

The Illinois Attorney General’s Office has defended an additional 25-year firearm sentencing enhancement for a Crest Hill man convicted of a deadly bar shooting in 2018.

A frantic search for the suspect in last weekend’s mass shooting at Brown University ended at a New Hampshire storage facility where authorities discovered the man dead inside and then revealed he also was suspected of killing a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor

The "quick actions" of four Will County sheriff's deputies have been credited with saving the life of a pregnant woman who was injured in a shooting earlier this year.

Australian federal and state government leaders on Monday agreed to immediately overhaul already-tough national gun control laws after a mass shooting targeted a Hanukkah celebration on Sydney’s Bondi Beach, leaving at least 15 people dead

Police in Rhode Island said early Sunday that they had a person of interest in custody after a shooting that rocked the Brown University campus during final exams, leaving two people dead and nine others wounded

Two gunmen attacked a Hannukah celebration on a Sydney beach Sunday, killing at least 11 people in what Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called an act of antisemitism and terrorism

A shooter dressed in black killed at least two people and wounded eight others at Brown University on Saturday during final exams on the Ivy League campus, authorities said, and police were searching for the suspec

A man who shot a person in 2021 during a birthday party at an indoor amusement park in Villa Park has been found guilty of aggravated battery with a firearm.

From Capitol News Illinois: Under the law, gun owners will be required to keep them in a locked container so that they are inaccessible or unusable by anyone other than the owner. Owners who violate the law could be subject to fines as high as $10,000

The incident was reported on Monday in the 200 block of Munroe Street in Joliet.

Charges were filed last week against a Plainfield Township man following a Will County Sheriff’s Office investigation of a shooting that was reported on June 5.

A man was sentenced to 33 years in prison Tuesday in connection with the robbery of a Lombard store and the subsequent shooting of a police officer three years ago.

Officers responded to the shooting on Dec. 6 in the 500 block Ohio Street in Joliet.

Joliet's police chief said his investigations division “continues to record higher than a 90% clearance rate on homicide offenses over a three-year period.”

Shortly before 3 p.m. on Thursday, deputies responded to the area of Green Garden and Princeton Street in Lockport Township regarding a vehicle that crashed into a fence, Will County Sheriff’s Office said.

While police said an Ottawa man was arrested on a charge of attempted murder of a Will County sheriff’s deputy in Joliet, that was not among the charges in an indictment filed on Wednesday.

A man on parole for armed robbery has been charged with robbing an Oak Brook gas station.

Charges against the man accused of shooting two National Guard members have been upgraded to first-degree murder after one of the soldiers died, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia announced Friday

A Joliet woman has been charged with endangering two people inside of a liquor store on Sept. 27 by recklessly firing a gun.

An Afghan national who worked for the CIA in his native country and arrived in the U.S. in 2021 drove across the country from Washington state to shoot two West Virginia National Guard members just blocks from the White House, U.S. officials said Thursday

The West Virginia governor initially said the troops had died, but later walked back the statement to say his office was “receiving conflicting reports” about their condition

Joliet police officers responded to the shooting last Saturday in the 300 block of Third Avenue.