One In Custody After 8-Hour Standoff At Batavia Home
A person is in police custody after barricading himself inside his home in Batavia for about eight hours Tuesday, prompting a lockdown at two schools in the western suburb.
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A person is in police custody after barricading himself inside his home in Batavia for about eight hours Tuesday, prompting a lockdown at two schools in the western suburb.
Most recently, a man was shot in the West Garfield Park neighborhood on the West Side. The 45-year-old was driving in the 4500 block of West Lake about 10:10 p.m. when someone in an SUV shot him in the left arm, according to Chicago Police. He was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where his condition stabilized.
She was sitting on the front porch of a home in the 6700 block of South Parnell Avenue at 6:35 p.m. when shots were fired and she was struck, according to Chicago Police.
Shortly before 6 p.m., he was walking in the 1100 block of North Hamlin Avenue when someone in a passing vehicle started shooting, according to Chicago Police.
Three men were shot in the West Side Austin neighborhood Tuesday afternoon, leaving two in serious condition.
John J. Gorman, 53, is charged with aggravated discharge of a firearm, a felony, Cook County prosecutors said. He's being held in the Cook County Jail, records show. Gorman could face up to 15 years in prison if convicted.
Officers responding to a large fight in the 2900 block of Reflection Court about 10 p.m. found 25-year-old Rudy Valdez with multiple stab wounds nearby in the 2100 block of Horizon Court, Joliet Deputy Police Chief Alan Roechner said. A black Jeep was seen speeding from the scene.
Loved ones were saying goodbye Tuesday morning to a 9-year-old boy who was shot and killed in what police called a gang-related execution.
Several garages have been burned in an arson spree dating back to mid-October. The fires have been set along Damen Avenue, Diversey Parkway, Lincoln Avenue, Ashland Avenue, Wellington Avenue, and other streets on the North Side.
Rudy Valdez, 25, suffered multiple stab wounds and was pronounced dead at Presence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Joliet at 4:50 p.m., according to the Will County coroner's office.
The 28-year-old man was sitting in his vehicle near the Atlantis Gentleman's Club in the 1800 block of East Lincoln Highway at 3:10 a.m., when a man wearing a mask walked up to his vehicle, according to the Cook County Sheriff's Office.
The robbery happened at 10:04 a.m. Monday at the TCF Bank branch at 440 E. Rand Rd. in Arlington Heights, according to the FBI.
Testimony finished Monday in the murder trial of real estate investor Reginald Potts, who is accused of strangling ex-girlfriend Nailah Franklin in 2007 after she threatened to reveal his criminal past.
The 40-year-old man was standing on the sidewalk in the 6200 block of South Vernon Avenue at 6:52 p.m. when two men approached from a gang way and shot at the man, police said.
The latest homicide happened late Saturday in the South Side Englewood neighborhood. Michael A. Johnson, 43, was found with a gunshot wound to the head about 10:45 p.m. sitting in the driver's seat of a parked vehicle in the 700 block of West 59th Street.
Franika Marshall broke down remembering her 14-year-old son, J-Quantae Riles, who was slain on a West Englewood sidewalk, just days after moving back to Chicago from Virginia.
The crash occurred at about 2:30 a.m. Saturday when a car was traveling north in the southbound lanes of I-94 near 159th Street, according to Illinois State Police. Three other vehicles were also involved in the crash.
In the four burglaries, the suspect forced into a residence and took televisions, computers, cash, jewelry, and personal items, according to a community alert from Chicago Police.
A 21-year-old woman was charged with making a false report claiming that her car was stolen after she lost control of the car and crashed it into a creek in Waukegan.
A man and a boy were shot by someone with a BB gun Sunday afternoon on the Far South Side.
A 38-year-old man has been accused of sexually assaulting an 18-year-old woman at a hotel last week in the South Side Kenwood neighborhood.
A 14-year-old boy who was shot to death late Saturday in the Southwest Side Gage Park neighborhood had recently moved back to Chicago from Virginia with his pregnant mother and younger sister.
Four people were killed — including a 14-year-old boy — and at least 15 other people have been wounded in Chicago shootings since Friday evening.
A 51-year-old man was killed and two other men were critically wounded in a West Humboldt Park neighborhood shooting Friday night on the West Side.
The black community's response to the tragedy and the murders of other children is being hotly debated today, reports CBS 2's Jim Williams.
