Jadon L. Lewis, 22, was pronounced dead Tuesday night in Chicago Heights. His cause of death was listed as multiple gunshot wounds.

Similarly, San Francisco counted just 28 homicides in 2025, a 20% decline from the 35 killings it had the year prior. It marked the Bay city’s lowest total since 1954. And Oakland logged 66 homicides through Dec. 28, on pace to become the lowest annual total since 1967. That’s a huge decline from the 125 homicides that rocked the city in 2023.

Charlotte’s first reported homicide of 2026 happened Monday evening on a street lined with single family homes, according to Charlotte-Mecklenburg police. The identity of the person who died has not been released. It happened around 7 p.m. Jan. 5, in the 3000 block of Carol Avenue. The neighborhood is just east of Tuckaseegee Road.

Dolton and Harvey tied for the most homicides with seven each, though the south suburbs saw a 35% decrease in homicides in 2025.

APD solved 55 of the 63 homicide cases from 2025, achieving a solve rate of nearly 89%. Additionally, detectives solved 26 cases from previous years.

An 11-year-old boy in Perry County, Pennsylvania, has been charged with homicide in a fatal shooting on Tuesday.

CMPD investigates a homicide by the railroad tracks on Alpha Mill Lane after finding a body with a gunshot wound.

The sister of an Ohio homicide victim is working to bring more attention to cold cases through an update to state law. On Dec. 28, 1991, the remains of Robin Stone, 17, were discovered in Guernsey County.