2 teens charged in 2023 beating, carjacking, pregnant woman in Libertyville
Their identities were not released as they were juveniles at the time of the crime.
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Their identities were not released as they were juveniles at the time of the crime.
On Tuesday, Robert Brandt, 44, was arrested in the 4300 block of South Champlain.
Some of the men now charged were already convicted in a deadly carjacking in Milwaukee.
The incidents happened on Saturday in the Chatham, Little Italy, and Auburn Gresham neighborhoods
Police said in each of the robberies, a group of three men wearing black hoodies and ski masks walked up to their victims with a handgun and demanded their vehicle.
Damonte McCorkle is charged with aggravated kidnapping, two counts of aggravated carjacking, and armed robbery.
The carjacking happened in broad daylight at 98th and Halsted streets.
Police said the carjacker got away with the vehicle and the victim's personal items.
Chicago police said the two 18-year-olds stole a car at gunpoint Sunday night.
Two boys, 13 and 15, were charged in the armed carjacking in West Pullman, and a 16-year-old was charged in connection to a September carjacking in Washington Heights.
Federal prosecutors said Earrious Moore stole three cars, tried to steal two others, and shot three people on the same afternoon on April 26, 2018.
Sources say the 74-year-old retired sergeant was the victim of an attempted carjacking near Lincoln and Berteau avenues in North Center. Andrew Ramos reports.
The teens were arrested on Wednesday in the 1100 block of South Hamilton Avenue on the city's Near West Side.
Chicago police say the girl was identified as the suspect who took a vehicle at gunpoint from a woman, 40, in the 3400 block of West 38th Street on Wednesday.
Andrew Horwath was being assisted into the front seat of his minivan, when a man got in the driver's door and started driving off with the minivan.
Kyle Sears was apprehended in Verona, Illinois, in the carjacking of Andrew Horwath's minivan outside Silver Cross Hospital.
Chicago police said he was one of the four offenders who, less than one hour earlier, sprayed a chemical irritant at the victim while taking his vehicle by force on the same block.
While both shootings remain under investigation, under Illinois state law the victims' use of force at this point appear to be justified
The offenders demanded the victim's vehicle before discharging a chemical agent on the victim.
A 14-year-old boy was arrested on Monday in connection with the fatal shooting of a 25-year-old man back in July. Police said the teenager was identified as the person who allegedly shot and killed the man before attempting to take his car in the 5400 block of South Wells Street shortly before 8 a.m. on July 14. The victim was later identified as Michal Ciskal, of Des Plaines.
A police source said a pursuit of that stolen car was underway before the boys – both 15 years old – crashed their car into the front of a store near 75th Street and Vincennes Avenue just after midnight. Shardaa Gray reports.
Six of those incidents happened on Saturday, and three more on Sunday—all happening during the early morning hours.
Six of those incidents happened on Saturday, and three more on Sunday—all happening during the early morning hours.
The offenders entered and attempted to leave the scene but struck a post.
Police say a woman, 46, was sitting in a parked vehicle when she was approached by two unknown males both armed with handguns.
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