Former NFL player Sergio Brown ordered detained on charges of mother's murder
Prosecutors said the case against the former NFL safety shows he is responsible for the murder of his 73-year-old mother, Myrtle Simmons-Brown.
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Prosecutors said the case against the former NFL safety shows he is responsible for the murder of his 73-year-old mother, Myrtle Simmons-Brown.
The ex-NFL player looked very confused when he walked into the courtroom at the Maybrook Courthouse in Maywood. CBS 2's Suzanne Le Mignot reports.
Former NFL player Sergio Brown was back in the Chicago area this week to face first-degree murder charges. Brown was formally charged in suburban Maywood on Tuesday in the murder of his mother.
The family of the 18-year-old woman killed in Belmont Cragin told CBS 2 that they're not giving up in their quest for justice.
Kevin Krenc is charged with first-degree murder in the death of Victor Garcia.
There was an outpouring of emotion inside a packed gym in southwest suburban Plainfield Tuesday night where hundreds of people honored the memory of 6-year-old Wadea Al-Fayoume, who was killed in an apparent hate crime. CBS 2's Jermont Terry was in Plainfield where so many came out that organizers had to place a speaker outside because there was not enough room for everyone inside. The family said it showed people really cared.
According to The Marshall Project, roughly 42 states and the District of Columbia had higher reporting rates than Illinois last year.
"The incident in Plainfield is both continuation and intensification of anti-Palestinian and anti-Arab racist acts that have been invisibilized most people don't know these incidents are going on every day in Chicagoland."
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.
James Jones, 51, of South Bend, Indiana, was arrested on Monday by the Great Lakes Regional Task Force in the 400 block of West Sample Street.
The trial is expected to provide insight into Chicago's "Drill" music scene and its effect on violence in the city.
FBG Duck, also known as Carlton Weekly, was shot and killed while shopping on Oak Street back in August 2020. Police said the shooters were all members of the O-Block street gang.
Prosecutors have said Ernest Collins, his girlfriend, and her mother plotted to rob and shoot Michael Armendariz, then dumped his body in a garbage can in a vacant home.
Sierra Jamison, 30, was strangled inside her garage in the Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood.
Jamison's funeral is scheduled for 10:30 Saturday at the Christ Temple Apostolic Faith Church near Ogden and Ashland, on the city's Near West Side.
Lee Harris said he lost 33 years he can't get back, but through his lawsuit he can make sure someone else doesn't lose that kind of time.
She'Nyah O'Flynn was returning home after celebrating a cousin's graduation, and was holding her baby cousin when the shots rang out.
The man suspected of killing a family of four in southwest suburban Romeoville had been denied a firearm owner's identification, or FOID, card by Illinois State Police, CBS 2 has learned.
Prosecutors said the victim, Sierra Jamison, had known the accused man for 10 years and started a romantic relationship with him.
Prosecutors said a Chicago mother was killed by someone she knew well. The accused killer, Lawrence Boyle, was in court on Friday, and so was CBS 2's Suzanne Le Mignot. She had the latest about the suspect's violent past.
Lawrence Boyle, 63, was charged Thursday with first-degree murder in the strangulation of Sierra Jamison.
Police on Thursday night cleared out the home of the slain Rolón-Bartolomei family in Romeoville – taking more evidence, and leaving neighbors with more questions. CBS 2's Sara Machi reports.
We poured through Romeoville murder suspect Nathaniel Huey Jr.'s criminal past and found he had been court ordered to not have any guns. CBS 2 Investigator Dave Savini reports.
Romeoville murder suspect Nathaniel Huey Jr.’s criminal past should have been a red flag – including a court order banning him from possessing firearms. CBS 2 Investigator Dave Savini reports.
