There Is No Plan. Johnson Has Been Lying All Along: Four Homicides, Multiple Car Thefts, Gangs and a 300‑Person High School Brawl

February 12, 2026 | John Kugler |
February 12, 2026 | John Kugler |

SubX.News® Street Report

Chicago bled before sunrise on February 11, 2026.

Carjacking turned deadly in Boystown with second body found near hijacked vehicle on miles away on the South Side.

Just before 4 a.m. in Lake View—700 block of West Waveland Avenue, between Halsted and Broadway—two armed suspects approached a parked car occupied by a 22-year-old man and a 38-year-old man.

The offenders demanded the vehicle and belongings, then opened fire. The 22-year-old took bullets to the chest and back; he reached Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center only to be pronounced dead.

The suspects escaped in the stolen car. Police later connected that vehicle to a second South Side homicide roughly 10–12 miles away.

Less than an hour later, near 3700 South Lake Park Avenue in Oakland/Bronzeville, a man lay outside with a gunshot wound to the head.

He died on scene. No arrests followed either shooting immediately; both cases remain active.

Pre-dawn chaos extended southwest.

A CSX freight train derailed near Chicago Ridge in the area of 107th/108th Street and Central Avenue, at the diamond crossing with the Indiana Harbor Belt tracks. Between ten and twelve cars jumped the rails between 4:24 and 4:45 a.m.

No injuries were reported and no hazmat spilled, yet crossings closed, Metra Southwest Service shut down completely for the day (resumption planned for Thursday), and roads in Chicago Ridge and Oak Lawn stayed blocked.

Mid-afternoon traffic already strangled the streets.

Construction for bike lanes near Damen Avenue by a Target store left pavement torn open—cones, cut asphalt, single-lane choke points funneling vehicles onto Archer.

No crews appeared for the second consecutive day on a major artery. Backups thickened; winter scheduling of non-emergency work raised questions about priorities and urgency.

Lakefront conditions delivered brief relief in the late afternoon: 4:30 p.m., forty-one degrees, partly sunny skies, windows down—almost beach weather for February. Scanner traffic provided a constant background hum.

Next stop: Marine Drive in Uptown.

The American Islamic College migrant/family shelter (640 W. Irving Park Road) entered its wind-down phase. The city has confirmed closure by June 30, 2026, folding the separate migrant system into the unified homeless shelter program.

Discarded cots and baby strollers filled the lot. Staff vehicles displayed out-of-state plates—Texas (multiple non-rentals), Minnesota, Indiana.

Funding sources, contract recipients, and the rationale for out-of-state operators servicing a Chicago facility remained unclear.

People lingered in nearby cars despite shelter access; observers noted alleged drug use and sales in parked vehicles close to adjacent Disney Magnet School.

Westbound Fullerton through Lincoln Park/DePaul reflected identical issues by 5:15 p.m. Fresh bike lanes, curb bump-outs, narrowed travel lanes, and recently cut pavement slowed traffic.

Mild weather prevailed, college students populated the zone, million-dollar homes lined the route—yet zero cyclists appeared across several blocks. Empty, papered-over storefronts stood along the stretch.

Heavy infrastructure spending produced little visible return amid stagnant commercial space.

Evening violence intensified.

A Cook County Sheriff’s unit sat at the same gas station near 59th Street off the Dan Ryan with a felony vehicle. A heavily damaged black Nissan, headlights on, was reported stolen—marking the third stolen vehicle incident that day, following earlier auto-theft calls elsewhere in the city.

Only one thing was wrong: inter‑agency radio communication failed, preventing Chicago Police from coordinating directly with the sheriff’s car to arrest and hold the suspect.

Separate radio traffic described a white van suspect armed with a gun near 70th and Cottage Grove, linked to a domestic incident in which the offender allegedly poured water on a victim’s car.

Dunbar Vocational Career Academy (30th and King Drive) descended into disorder at 8 p.m. A basketball game between Dunbar and Bowen high schools exploded into a large brawl involving hundreds of students and parents.

Multiple “10-1” officer-emergency calls triggered dozens of squad cars from several districts plus state police.

A helicopter circled overhead; SWAT deployed after possible gun reports. The fight started inside the gym before spilling outdoors. Two juveniles went into custody; no confirmed serious injuries surfaced.

Attention then shifted to 45th and Albany in Brighton Park.

Officers responded to shots fired inside a residence at 8:03 p.m. on a quiet working-class block. Inside an apartment, a 43-year-old woman with a gunshot wound to the face and a 70-year-old man with a gunshot wound to the head were both pronounced dead on scene.

Detectives processed the upstairs unit while light tape marked the perimeter. Domestic circumstances suggested a possible murder-suicide under investigation.

Strain continued after midnight.

Cook County units waited on a commercial alarm at 4655 West Foster (forest preserve area) while no CPD car dispatched—no ticket appeared in the system.

Fresh gang tags materialized on a surface between 12:30 and 1:35 a.m. A quick return pass about thirty minutes later showed the markings already crossed out and replaced by different ones—active crews operated overnight with minimal interference.

Patrol cars moved through tagged alleys under flashing lights as temperatures fell and streets emptied.

The past 24 hours in Chicago weren’t a crime spike they were a checklist of everything going wrong:

  • Pre-dawn homicides linked by a stolen car
  • Train derailment crippling commuter rail
  • Torn-up streets and empty bike lanes
  • Migrant shelter closing amid funding questions
  • Stolen vehicles stacking up
  • School brawl requiring a citywide response
  • Double homicide inside a small apartment
  • Delayed alarm responses
  • Overnight gang activity

All of it compressed into one 24-hour cycle.

Four victims across three shootings.

Four people were killed in three separate incidents.

No one stopped it.

A department short well over a thousand officers, buried in tickets, approvals, and bureaucracy, has no functioning proactive crime‑prevention plan left—only reaction after the damage is done, despite repeated promises of “holistic public safety” and neighborhood‑level prevention.

Those promises came while academy classes were slowed, vacancies grew, and beat staffing never recovered.

On this day, in case after case, the city failed to protect its citizens.

Warmer weather is coming.

Staffing is not catching up.

Aldermanic coalitions are already fighting over the budget.

Unless the plan changes, this won’t be an outlier—it will be the baseline.

A typical bloody weekday in Chicago.

[ Officers on patrol talk to residents about fresh gang tags on a garage in a residential alley as overnight units check the block for gang activity in McKinley Park on the Southside of Chicago – 1:35 AM Feb 12, 2026 – Screengrab SubX.News® Live Feed ]

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Based on scanner audio, on‑scene observation, and publicly available reports.

40°F … 5:19 PM Sunset in Chicago Wednesday, February 11, 2026 (CST)

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Two People Found Shot to Death Southside Chicago … 45th & Albany (F)-43yo, Gsw- Face 0-1-1-0 (DOA) (M)-70yo, Gsw- Head 0-1-1-0 (DOA) Death Investigation, Homicide 4500 S. Albany on February 11, 2026 at approx. 8:03 P.M. Officers responded to a call of two people shot. Upon arrival, CPD officers and CFD personnel discovered a 70-year-old male and a 43-year-old female unresponsive inside a residence. The female victim sustained a gunshot wound to the face and was pronounced on scene. The male victim sustained a gunshot wound to the head and was also pronounced on scene. There are no further details available at this time. Area One Detectives are investigating (9th District) Posted: February 11, 2026 10:08 PM Updated: February 12, 2026 2:08 AM Media Major Incident Notifications #ChicagoScanner #CrimeNews #Homicide

Posted by Substance News on Wednesday, February 11, 2026

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