Markham Man Charged With First Degree Murder
According to Cook County Assistant State's Attorney Maria McCarthy, Lakisha Roby had an active order of protection against Lynn Washington.
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According to Cook County Assistant State's Attorney Maria McCarthy, Lakisha Roby had an active order of protection against Lynn Washington.
The four-time felon accused of killing Chicago Police Cmdr. Paul Bauer pleaded not guilty Monday to a 56-count indictment charging him with murder, and various drug and gun violations.
Shomari Legghette, 44, has been in custody since Feb. 14, when he allegedly shot and killed Bauer outside the Thompson Center downtown.
Angry at waiting more than two years so far to see Chicago Police Officer Jason Van Dyke go on trial for murder in the shooting of Laquan McDonald, protesters demanded the judge set a trial date on Wednesday, but the judge said there is more pretrial work to do, and the case "will go to trial when it's fair."
The indictment returned by a grand jury in Fort Lauderdale also charges the 19-year-old with 17 counts of attempted murder.
Chicago Police Supt. Eddie Johnson on Thursday called Mateo Garcia Aguayo's murder "brutal and horrific."
Mateo Garcia Aguayo, 2, was found dead and nearly decapitated Wednesday afternoon at a South Avers residence.
Organizers are scheduled to first hold a rally in Federal Plaza, then end up in front of Trump Tower.
A Streamwood man has been charged with carjacking and murder in a crash that killed a 69-year-old woman in the Goose Island neighborhood earlier this week.
Cook County prosecutors said Shomari Legghette shot Chicago Police Cmdr. Paul Bauer six times in the head, neck, torso, back and wrist during a scuffle Tuesday afternoon in the Loop.
A 19-year-old man who had been expelled from a high school in Parkland, Florida, has been charged with 17 counts of murder, accused of carrying out one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history.
Shomari Legghette, 44, was scheduled to appear for a bond hearing Thursday afternoon at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse.
Prosecutors said that Blake, 45, had been a friend and mentor to Bernard Williams – then the teenage brother of Blake's girlfriend.
The men who are suing Chicago, the police and prosecutors for wrongful convictions said the police who coerced confessions from them did the same thing to others.
Police say 21-year-old Julian Upshaw was picked up this morning at a home in Robbins.
Charges have been filed in the fatal shooting at a Dolton gas station late last year.
Rory Watson, 57, faces a first-degree murder charge in connection with the fatal shooting of 56-year-old Beatrice Jones, according to Cook County prosecutors.
A Cook County judge has thrown out the convictions of two men who spent nearly 45 combined years in prison for the 1989 of a retired Chicago police sergeant's wife, based on DNA evidence and allegations of police torture.
Dr. Matthew Lange, died last Jan. 27, shot multiple times in his car while waiting for his 4-year-old child outside Scullen Middle School.
On June 29, 2015, Reyes, a member of the Latin Counts street gang, fatally shot Lauren Calvillo and Christopher White in Hammond, prosecutors said.
Michael Pelko, 37, of Willow Springs, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of his longtime friend Izat Morrar, whose body was found July 20, 2017, in an alley near the 5300 block of South Calumet.
Michael Jones was sentenced to 80 years in prison after pleading guilty to the 1985 murder of 15-year-old Kristy Wesselman in Glen Ellyn.
2 Investigator Brad Edwards recently caught up with some people who haven't lost hope that the killer will be found.
Special Prosecutor Joseph McMahon told Judge Vincent Gaughan that the prosecution team also intended to commission a poll.
Prosecutors say a Champaign man has pleaded guilty in the 1985 death of a teenage girl who left her suburban Chicago home to go to the store and never returned.
