Woman stabbed to death during fight outside Austin neighborhood gas station
Chicago police said around 12:15 a.m., the woman approached another 20-year-old woman in the 5300 block of West Chicago Avenue.
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Chicago police said around 12:15 a.m., the woman approached another 20-year-old woman in the 5300 block of West Chicago Avenue.
Police say the 49-year-old victim got into a verbal fight with a woman on the bus, and that's when she took out a knife and stabbed him in the chest.
Two offenders grabbed the victim by the hair and demanded his property before he stabbed one of them in the neck.
A robbery attempt at a South Side gas station on Wednesday led to the fatal stabbing of one of the offenders by the victim.
The West Loop restaurant worker charged with fatally stabbing his coworker on Wednesday at the City Winery will remain in jail, a judge ordered on Friday. Prosecutors said Clarence Johnson, a 41-year-old dishwasher at City Winery, allegedly used a pocket knife to attack his coworker, Francois Swain, 47. Johnson was charged with first-degree murder and possession of a controlled substance in connection with the attack.
Prosecutors laid out the events leading up to Clarence Johnson allegedly stabbing his coworker, Francois Swain, to death on Wednesday at the City Winery.
The West Loop restaurant worker charged with fatally stabbing his coworker on Wednesday at the City Winery will remain in jail, a judge ordered on Friday. Prosecutors said Clarence Johnson, a 41-year-old dishwasher at City Winery, allegedly used a pocket knife to attack his coworker, Francois Swain, 47. Johnson was charged with first-degree murder and possession of a controlled substance in connection with the attack.
An elderly man from Missouri was arrested on Monday for the murder of an 18-year-old woman nearly 60 years ago in a south suburb of Chicago. James Barbier, 79, is charged with first-degree murder in the 1966 stabbing death of 18-year-old Karen Snider in Calumet City.
The victim was pronounced dead on the scene by fire officials.
A pregnant mother had sought an order of protection before she and her 11-year-old son were attacked in their Edgewater neighborhood home on Wednesday. The stabbing attack resulted in the boy's death. But that emergency order of protection was denied even after she warned a judge she could be attacked and that she feared for her life.
The attack left the pregnant mother critically hurt and her 11-year-old son dead. Police have arrested, but not yet charged a suspect in connection with the stabbing.
A pregnant mother had sought an order of protection before she and her 11-year-old son were attacked in their Edgewater neighborhood home on Wednesday. The stabbing attack resulted in the boy's death.
An 11-year-old boy was killed and his pregnant mother was critically stabbed Wednesday morning in what police said was a domestic incident in the Edgewater neighborhood. One person was in custody Wednesday afternoon.
Prosecutors revealed a possible motive for a playground stabbing of two teenage brothers earlier this week in south suburban Chicago Heights. One of the brothers, who was only 13 years old, died as a result of the stabbing. In court on Friday, attorneys revealed new details about what happened in Chicago Heights last Monday.
CBS 2's Andrew Ramos reports a family friend said the teens were at the park with their sister. They said the teens told him to stop. It started an argument and the man then stabbed the brothers.
The atmosphere outside and inside the mosque was somber as many made their way in to pay their respects to the family of Wadee Alfayoumi.
There was an outpouring of grief on Monday as a 6-year-old child was laid to rest after a Plainfield Township landlord was accused of killing the Palestinian American boy allegedly because he was Muslim. CBS 2's Shardaa Gray was at the Mosque Foundation in Bridgeview, where thousands came to mourn Wadea Al-Fayoume.
A Plainfield Township landlord is accused of killing a 6-year-old Palestinian American boy and stabbing that boy's mother because they were Muslim. Prosecutors said Joseph Czuba, 71, wanted the victims to move out of the home they rented from him, and believed he and his wife "were in danger," because he feared the woman he stabbed "was going to call over her Palestinian friends or family to harm them."
A Plainfield Township landlord is accused of killing a 6-year-old Palestinian American boy and stabbing that boy's mother because they were Muslim. Prosecutors said Joseph Czuba, 71, wanted the victims to move out of the home they rented from him, and believed he and his wife "were in danger," because he feared the woman he stabbed "was going to call over her Palestinian friends or family to harm them."
A 6-year-old child was laid to rest on Monday after a Plainfield Township landlord was accused of killing the Palestinian American boy because he was Muslim. CBS 2's Shardaa Gray was at the Mosque Foundation in Bridgeview where services were held.
The woman who stabbed and killed a Good Samaritan who attempted to stop a fight in Edgewater has been charged.
Des Plaines police said a driver was injured, and also arrested, after crashing his car into a home.
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Diontae Harper, 25, in a plea deal, admitted that he and another man shot and killed the victim who was sitting inside at a gas station in the 8600 block of South Halsted Street in Auburn Gresham on May 13, 2020.
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Illinois State Police said, around 9:15 a.m., a semi-tractor trailer overturned in the northbound lanes of Interstate 55 near Bolingbrook.
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Chicago police said two men, 38 and 45, and a woman, 27, were inside the vehicle around 4:30 a.m. in the 5800 block of West Schubert Avenue when two unknown armed people approached and fired shots at the vehicle.
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The child was traveling in a minivan driven by a 23-year-old man in the 3100 block of South Ashland Avenue Wednesday evening.
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At 7:10 p.m., the little boy was traveling in a minivan in the 3100 block of South Ashland Avenue when someone fired shots.
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They hit three different businesses in just an hour overnight Tuesday into Wednesday.
All three shootings happened just after classes were dismissed for the day.
The chain of events started with a domestic violence call, and ended with a baby fighting for their life.
