Murder Victims' Relatives Apprehensive Ahead Of Torture Panel's Vote
Jerry Mahaffey was convicted decades ago of killing Dean and JoEllen Pueschel, and beating their 12-year-old son almost to death.
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Jerry Mahaffey was convicted decades ago of killing Dean and JoEllen Pueschel, and beating their 12-year-old son almost to death.
Cook County sheriff's officers and Chicago Police executed a search warrant Friday at Larue Jackson's home in the 6300 block of South Throop Street, where investigators had received tips about dog fights happening, according to sheriff's office spokeswoman Sophia Ansari.
The 22-year-old was in a parked vehicle in the 6000 block of South Mozart Street at 10:58 p.m. when someone walked up and announced a robbery, according to Chicago Police. The man drove off and the person fired, striking him in the upper right arm.
The teen was outside in the 7300 block of South Blackstone Avenue about 4:35 p.m. when a male got out of a passing vehicle and shot him in the lower left leg, police said.
The city of Evanston is cracking down on crime centered around almost a dozen apartment buildings and houses.
The robbery happened at the PNC Bank branch at 28 N. Grove St. about 10 a.m., according to Elgin police.
The homicide happened Saturday afternoon in the the Rogers Park neighborhood on the North Side. At 12:30 p.m., Eric Jordan, 25, was walking in the 1600 block of West Howard when someone walked up and shot him, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner's office.
Jason Hooks, 20, has been charged with two felony counts of aggravated sexual assault, police said.
A 28-year-old woman killed herself late Sunday night, after breaking into a home in southwest suburban Bridgeview, and shooting an ex-girlfriend and the ex-girlfriend's father.
The man, 28, was found on the sidewalk in the 5400 block of South Paulina Street about 1:20 a.m. with gunshot wounds to his lower abdomen and left buttocks, according to Chicago Police.
The woman was walking on the sidewalk at 8:55 p.m. in the 2100 block of West Garfield Boulevard when a male came up behind her and cut her head and the right side of her neck before running away, according to Chicago Police.
Shortly after midnight, the 24-year-old was walking on the sidewalk in the 800 block of West Sunnyside Avenue when a gray car drove by and someone inside opened fire, according to Chicago Police.
The man was standing in an alley in the 0 – 100 block of East 100th Street about 11 p.m. when he heard shots and felt pain, according to Chicago Police.
At 3:58 p.m., the men, ages 20 and 21, were standing on the sidewalk near an alley in the 6600 block of South Union Avenue when a white minivan drove by and someone inside fired shots, police said.
Fifteen people have been shot — one of them fatally — across Chicago since late Friday afternoon.
An Illinois appeals court has affirmed former Bolingbrook police officer Drew Peterson's conviction and prison sentence in the murder of his third wife, Kathleen Savio.
The father of a 20-year-old model who was shot and killed in Englewood earlier this month has announced an increased reward for information leading to his daughter's killer.
The robbery happened at the TCF Bank branch at 922 Green Bay Rd. at 6:50 p.m., according to Waukegan police and the FBI.
About 10:35 a.m., the man was found in the 4400 block of West Monroe Street with a gunshot wound to the torso, police News Affairs Officer Bari Lemmon said.
About 4:15 p.m. Wednesday, officers on patrol near Lake Street and Dodge Avenue heard gunfire coming from a block east on Darrow Avenue, according to Evanston police. They drove there and saw two people run into a home in the 1800 block of Lake, police said.
About 7:50 p.m., the 23-year-old was shot in the hand during an attempted robbery in the 11200 block of South Avenue H, police said. The shooter ran off without getting any of the man's property.
The 38-year-old man was found shot in the driver's seat of a car about 10 p.m. after the car crashed into the side of a building in the 100 block of East 127th Street, police News Affairs Officer Ronald Gaines said.
Police suspect a blaze that put six people out of their homes Tuesday night in the Lakeview neighborhood might have been the latest in a string of arson fires in the area.
Lake County prosecutors have begun reviewing all cases linked to Fox Lake Police Lt. Joe Gliniewicz, in the wake of revelations he was embezzling funds from the department's Explorer's program before killing himself.
An angry Cook County judge berated a Chicago Police officer who was in court Tuesday after being charged with firing five shots at an off-duty suburban cop who tried to pull him over for driving drunk.
