Third teen charged in brutal beating of man on CTA bus on West Side
A third teen stood charged Tuesday morning in the brutal beating of a 62-year-old man on a CTA bus on Chicago's West Side last week.
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A third teen stood charged Tuesday morning in the brutal beating of a 62-year-old man on a CTA bus on Chicago's West Side last week.
A boy and a girl, both 15, were charged with multiple felony counts of aggravated battery in the attack that left Larry Gilkey, 62, in a medically induced coma.
According to police, the 62-year-old victim was beaten and severely injured, resulting in extensive and ongoing hospitalization.
The attack happened around 5:40 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 16, on the northbound bus in the 700 block of South Cicero Avenue.
A teen and six children were charged after a mother was attacked by a group of kids while protecting her children outside a South Side elementary school in November.
A south suburban Chicago man stood charged Monday with shooting a man and beating a woman in the city’s Englewood neighborhood this past weekend.
A man was charged after a woman was sexually assaulted in The Loop on Thursday.
A Tinley Park police officer was charged after being accused of violating an order of protection.
Chicago police said the suspect approached the victims on foot and beat them and restrained the victims using his hands in order to gain physical control with sexual assault as a probable motive .
A man was charged with attempted murder after police said he hit a member of the Cook County Fugitive Task Force with his car.
Adam Erkan pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor counts of battery. His hate crime charges, however, were dropped.
Adam Erkan pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor counts of battery in the attack. His initial hate crime charges have been dropped.
Corshawnda Hatter and her children were attacked by a group of kids after picking them up from school in South Deering earlier this month.
A serial attacker who punched women across the city of Chicago has been sentenced to seven years in prison.
Last June, William D. Swetz, 34, of Flossmoor, was charged with aggravated battery in a public place and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
Chicago police said a man was robbed at gunpoint on a CTA Red Line train.
A second woman said she was punched by a man who is believed to be connected to another random attack in downtown Chicago this month.
Friday evening here at the Metra 35th Street stop, she said, just as she was getting off the train, a man told her to get out of his way and then threw a punch to her jaw.
Lynsy Howard said she was walking with her friend and was passing the man in a crosswalk when the next thing she remembers is holding her face, dazed, confused, and with a pain in her left eye.
Chicago police said the suspect struck another passenger in the head with a stick-like object as they exited a CTA bus on the city's Northwest Side last month.
Amid Cordova, 23, has been charged with multiple felony counts of aggravated battery, including aggravated battery to a transit employee.
Noaman Patel, 22, of Chicago, was arrested on Tuesday and charged with three felony counts of aggravated battery in a public place.
CBS News Chicago broke the story of the allegations against former acting Robbins police Chief Carl Scott in July 2024.
Danielle S. Wasserman, 37, faces multiple charges of aggravated battery, including strangulation and use of a deadly weapon, hate crime, and criminal damage to property after attacking two people.
Maurice McDowell, 43, of Maywood, was charged with three felonies, including attempted murder, vehicular hijacking, and aggravated battery to a peace officer.
