Third Suspect Charged In July 4th Murder Of 7-Year-Old Natalia Wallace
Chicago Police said 30-year-old Terrell Boyd, of Racine, Wisconsin, was arrested Monday evening in Racine and has been extradited to Chicago.
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Chicago Police said 30-year-old Terrell Boyd, of Racine, Wisconsin, was arrested Monday evening in Racine and has been extradited to Chicago.
A 39-year-old man has been charged with murder in the shooting death of 9-year-old Janari Ricks, who was shot and killed Friday evening while playing outside in the Cabrini Green neighborhood.
Police have said, around 6:45 p.m. Friday, a gunman opened fire on a group of people behind the townhomes on the 900 block of North Cambridge Avenue – the last occupied section of the Cabrini-Green public housing development – when a bullet struck Janari in the chest.
Special Public Defender Henry Sugden told McHenry County Judge Robert Wilbrandt "the state and I have been engaged in pretty serious negotiations" ever since JoAnn Cunningham's guilty plea.
"Miss Cunningham was responsible for that life. And now she must be responsible for his death."
During her sentencing hearing on Thursday, JoAnn Cunningham asked the judge for forgiveness, saying she loved A.J., the 5-year-old son she admitted killing.
There was testimony about one of several police visits to the family's Crystal Lake home prior to AJ's murder, which exhibited clear signs of abuse, drugs and neglect. Prosecutors showed pictures from inside the cluttered, dirty home, including some of AJ's crib in a filthy room with a padlock on the door to lock him inside.
Wesley Ira Purkey's lawyers had argued his dementia had deteriorated so severely that he didn't understand why he was being executed.
Chicago Police said 22-year-old Davion Mitchell has been charged with one count of first-degree murder and one count of aggravated battery.
A judge on Wednesday halted the execution of a man, said to be suffering from dementia, who had been set to die by lethal injection in the federal government's second execution this week after a 17-year hiatus.
The execution of Daniel Lewis Lee came over the objection of the victims' relatives and following days of legal wrangling and delays.
U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan said there are still legal issues to resolve and that "the public is not served by short-circuiting legitimate judicial process."
Police said Michael Robinson punched 23-month-old Antwun Gayden several times in the face on Tuesday at Robinson's home on the 4200 block of South Calumet Avenue.
A man stood charged with murder Wednesday, after police said he beat another man in the head and face with a baseball bat in Albany Park.
An approximately 23-month-old boy was killed when a man punched him several times in the face Tuesday afternoon at a home on the 4200 block of South Calumet Avenue.
Reginald Merrill is charged with one count of first-degree murder and one count of aggravated battery.
Judge Jason Bohm wrote what happened to Yingying Zhang was unconscionable. However, counselors Thomas Miebach and Jennifer Maupin didn't cause or contribute to her death.
A suspect was charged Thursday evening in the murder of two teenage boys in the South Chicago neighborhood last weekend.
A suspect was in custody Wednesday afternoon in the murder of two teenage boys in the South Chicago neighborhood last weekend, police said.
Tandra Simonton, a spokeswoman for the state's attorney's office, said in a statement that eyewitness accounts were found to be unreliable.
Cunningham and A.J.'s father, Andrew Freund, were indicted on a combined 61 counts last May, including murder, aggravated battery, and concealing a homicide.
Cook County prosecutors alleged Avion King, 31, and six other gunmen targeted Kimberly Underwood, 53, believing she was rival gang member.
Murder charges were filed Wednesday against a Chicago college student accused of being part of group of men who were targeting rival gang members but ended up killing a grandmother.
State police appeared to rule out what had seemed to be a promising lead in the case of Zywicki, who was abducted after experiencing car troubles on Interstate 80 near La Salle, Illinois in 1992.
