Man Accused Of Mowing Down Pedestrians In Toronto Charged With Murder
Alek Minassian, the man suspected of plowing into pedestrians with a van Monday, was charged Tuesday with 10 counts of first-degree murder in a Toronto court.
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Alek Minassian, the man suspected of plowing into pedestrians with a van Monday, was charged Tuesday with 10 counts of first-degree murder in a Toronto court.
CBS News sources identified the suspect as Alek Minassian, 25, and obtained a photo of him from social media Monday.
Dorota Cieslinska's family said she had just left the bar shortly after 9 p.m., walking west on Roscoe Street on her way home, when the Jeep hit her as she was crossing the street at Halsted.
A 56-year-old woman was killed in a hit-and-run the Lakeview neighborhood.
The suspect waited for the victims outside, beat one man with a baseball bat and then got in his car and hit a woman as he drove off.
A vehicle changed lanes, struck the bicyclist from behind and drove off.
A Harvey Police Officer was injured while shooting a man who commandeered his car on Wednesday following a crash.
The driver was described as a female wearing a wearing a white or beige knitted headband.
Aurora police are trying to find the driver of a vehicle that hit a homeless man who died a few hours later.
The series of accidents occurred over the New Year's weekend in Park Ridge and Chicago. More than a dozen vehicles were damaged.
The daughter of a west suburban woman has posted a message on Facebook excoriating the hit-and-run driver who injured her mother Thursday night in the parking lot of an Aurora hospital.
Three suspects are in custody and police are searching for a fourth involved in a hit-and-run crash and reported garage burglary in Elmhurst on Monday morning.
A car was shoved off road and into a pool of water during a hit-and-run crash early Sunday on Interstate 80 in northwest Indiana.
Eduardo Avila Jr. of Joliet was charged with failure to stop after an accident involving injury or death and failure to report an accident involving injury or death.
Latatia Shepard, 47, of Zion, was struck by the northbound vehicle about 5 p.m. in the 2200 block of Lewis Avenue, according to Zion police.
Tricia Hoyt, of Orland Park, was found dead on the grass near Frontage Road and Lawton Lane in Bolingbrook around 11 a.m. Sunday.
Tricia S. Hoyt of Orland Park, 35, was found dead at 10:54 a.m. Sunday in the grass on the north side of Frontage Road near Lawton Lane.
The 40-year-old was found about 2:25 a.m. in the street in the 8300 block of South Stony Island, according to Chicago Police.
The car struck two pedestrians about 12:50 a.m. Oct. 21 on Green Bay Road south of 9th Street, police said.
Police released surveillance images on Monday and asked the public for help after a bicyclist was killed over the weekend.
A pedestrian was struck by a hit-and-run vehicle late Sunday near Millennium Park.
Dominique Wilbourn was trying to cross the street in the 8200 block of South Cottage Grove when she was struck by the white Cadillac CTS.
A 42-year-old man was walking near Congress Parkway and St. Louis Avenue around 3:30 a.m., when a passing vehicle hit him and kept going.
The hit-and-run crash happened about 3:30 a.m. in the 3500 block of West Congress, police said.
"It's always a greater challenge once you get there to stay at the top," McLeod says.
