Police Officer Shoots Teen In South Chicago
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.
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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.
In response to a rise in shootings on Chicago area expressways, Illinois State Police on Wednesday announced plans to fortify special patrols aimed at reduce the violence.
Marcus Floyd, who was shot and severely wounded during the deadly incident, maintains he has "retrograde amnesia" and cannot recall the chain of events that sent him to the emergency room on May 19, 2010.
The man, thought to be in his 30s, was discovered about 1:35 a.m. at the apartment in the 1100 block of West Morse Avenue, police said.
About 8:50 p.m., officers responding to a call of shots fired in the 11600 block of South Throop Street found him on a sidewalk with gunshot wounds to the chest, abdomen and hand, police said.
About 9:20 p.m., the she was standing on the porch of a home in the 6800 block of South Sangamon Street when a gunman walked up and opened fire, police said.
In the most recent fatal shooting, a man was killed and a woman was wounded Monday night in the West Garfield Park neighborhood on the West Side, police said.
The victims were playing dice in the 1800 block of South Springfield Avenue about 9:45 p.m. when two male suspects approached and fired shots, police said.
Around 5:10 a.m., someone shot a car headed west on the Kennedy near Sayre Avenue, police said. The driver of the car was not injured, and only the vehicle was struck.
The 24-year-old man was working construction in the 4400 block of West Iowa Street about 10 p.m. when two males walked up and one of them pulled out a handgun, police said.
The 24-year-old was standing outside in the 5400 block of South Justine Street about 1:20 a.m. when he heard gunfire and realized he'd shot in the hip and leg, police said.
The boy was walking in the 6500 block of South King Drive at 1:03 a.m. when someone fired shots in his direction, police said.
The shooting happened about 7:30 p.m. in the 3700 block of South Michigan Avenue, according to preliminary information from police. CPD headquarters are located at 3510 S. Michigan Ave.
A man was shot and seriously injured by a Chicago Police officer during a traffic stop in the Chatham neighborhood on the South Side Saturday night.
