Maginn Street Bloodbath

When a late-night call sends Detective Maureen Vega to a North Side intersection, she finds a scene so brutal it changes the case before the first body is even covered: a dark Dodge Charger torn apart by gunfire, five people dead in the street, two survivors barely hanging on, and evidence that the killers did not come just to murder. They came to recover something.

What begins as a mass-casualty homicide quickly hardens into something far worse. The shooting on Maginn Street was no random e...