Charges Unlikely For Store Clerk Who Killed Armed Robber
The family that runs Kwick Shop Liquor has owned the convenience store for 2 ½ years, and said there has never been a robbery attempt before.
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The family that runs Kwick Shop Liquor has owned the convenience store for 2 ½ years, and said there has never been a robbery attempt before.
Dequan Hopkins, 19, was charged with murder while committing another forcible felony, and aggravated discharge of a firearm for the shooting death of his brother, 22-year-old Jovan Dovantae Hopkins, according to the Cook County state's attorney's office and Chicago Police.
Wauconda police say a store clerk shot and killed an armed robber last night.
Family members and friends returned this morning to the Indianapolis gas station where the daughter of a Chicago anti-violence activist was killed early yesterday, reports WBBM's Nancy Harty.
A 16-year-old boy who was shot by Chicago Police Friday evening in the West Englewood neighborhood on the South Side has been charged.
A 16-year-old boy suffered severe head trauma in a Friday night road rage altercation in southwest suburban Chicago Ridge.
A man was killed and a woman was injured in a Brighton Park neighborhood shooting Saturday night on the Southwest Side, police said.
A 14-year-old boy was seriously wounded in a shooting Saturday afternoon in the Back of the Yards neighborhood on the South Side.
Four people were killed and at least 29 others have been wounded in shootings across Chicago since Friday evening, according to police.
A woman was shot while "investigating noises" at an abandoned house in the South Chicago neighborhood early Saturday.
A man was killed and a 16-year-old boy was wounded in a West Garfield Park neighborhood shooting Friday evening on the West Side.
When Brian Howard set a fire at an FAA radar facility in Aurora in a failed suicide attempt in 2014, he caused "one of the most severe disruptions to air travel in recent memory," federal prosecutors said in a sentencing memorandum.
A woman was killed and two men were wounded in a shooting outside a liquor store in the Austin neighborhood early Friday.
A teenager was in the hospital early Friday, after Chicago police shot him when he allegedly refused to drop a weapon in the South Chicago neighborhood.
Officers were called to the home of a Tinley Park man and his fiancée about a month before he fatally shot her and took his own life in a Loop business last week, according to the suburban police department's reports.
The homicide happened shortly after 1 a.m. in Logan Square on the Northwest Side. Isaac Acevedo Jr., 23, was sitting in a vehicle near Schubert and Central Park when another vehicle pulled alongside and someone inside fired shots at him, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner's office.
Police in west suburban Naperville were reminding people to lock their cars, and remove their valuables, after a rash of vehicle burglaries in the past month.
A woman was sexually assaulted on the DePaul University campus overnight, as she was walking to her apartment. Police said offender is suspected in two other similar attacks this month.
Robert Hanlon said when he interviewed Marcus Floyd at Cook County Jail, he noticed Floyd showed signs of having "memory impairment." As other mental health experts have found, Floyd has no recollection of the night Chicago Police Officer Thomas Wortham VI was murdered, according to Hanlon.
Isaac Acevedo Jr., 23, was sitting in a vehicle near Schubert and Central Park avenues shortly after 1 a.m. when another vehicle pulled alongside and someone inside fired shots at him, police said.
The robbery took place about 10:56 a.m. at the PNC Bank branch at 4400 N. Broadway, according to the FBI. The suspect entered the bank, gave the teller a note demanding money, and fled when the teller complied, according to Chicago Police.
Dwayne L. Thomas, 20, was shot in the neck in the 7400 block of South Harvard about 1:20 p.m., according to police and the Cook County medical examiner's office
Prosecutors say he spent a lot of the money awarded to him on trying to get his old gang back together.
Police in Aurora are searching for three men who are suspects in an armed robbery at a cell phone store and have now released a surveillance photo of the suspects.
A man with prominent tattoos on his arm robbed a bank in the North Side Uptown neighborhood Wednesday morning.
