Wisconsin Woman Charged In 2013 Stabbing Death
A Milwaukee woman was ordered held in lieu of $1 million bail Wednesday for allegedly stabbing a man to death during a robbery on the Southwest Side three years ago.
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A Milwaukee woman was ordered held in lieu of $1 million bail Wednesday for allegedly stabbing a man to death during a robbery on the Southwest Side three years ago.
The man accused of the execution-style murder of 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee last year allegedly planned to torture the child by cutting off his fingers and ears, because of the boy's father's ties to a rival gang believed responsible for another fatal shooting, authorities said Tuesday.
Prosecutors at the sentencing hearing for convicted murderer Reginald Potts put more witnesses on the stand Thursday, depicting Potts as a violent con man who abused and took advantage of women and business partners on a routine basis.
A man who uses a wheelchair has been charged with fatally shooting a neighbor at a gym in the luxury apartment building where they lived.
Reginald Potts Jr. attacked prominent defense attorney Sam Adam Jr. when Adam represented the convicted murderer in criminal matters more than a decade ago, a Cook County prosecutor testified on the second day of Potts' sentencing hearing Tuesday.
A man and woman killed in separate shootings this weekend pushed this year's homicide tally past 100 — a mark reached almost two months earlier than last year.
Police have made an arrest in the murder of a cab driver in Lincoln Square earlier this week.
A 22-year-old man has been charged in the fatal shooting of a 62-year-old Vietnam veteran in the University Village neighborhood.
State and federal authorities arrested 19 Latin Kings gang members Wednesday in southwest suburban Joliet, including a man accused of a 2010 murder.
Elijah Timatyos, 23; and Michael Bembea, 24, both face charges of of first-degree murder, home invasion causing great bodily harm and burglary in connection with the death of 71-year-old Allen R. Levin, according to a statement from Chicago Police. A third suspect has not yet been charged.
Maurisio Hernandez, 34, was charged with first-degree murder, according to Chicago Police. Hernandez stabbed his girlfriend, 35-year-old Maricela Villegas, during an argument in the 2800 block of South Short Street shortly before 6 p.m., according to police and the Cook County medical examiner's office.
A West Side man has been charged killing one man and wounding another last summer in a South Chicago neighborhood drive-by shooting.
Bond was set at $1 million Saturday for a south suburban man charged with stabbing another man to death during a domestic fight late Thursday in Oak Forest.
William Strickland, 22, was found guilty of his grandfather's murder after a jury deliberated for 2 1/2 hours Thursday night at the Leighton Criminal Court Building.
Three more people have been charged — in addition to a 17-year-old boy — with beating a man to death and throwing his body in a dumpster in the West Ridge neighborhood on the North Side in December.
Friends and family of Aaren O'Connor hope a newly published flyer and its distribution this weekend will help lead them to her killer.
The aunt of a teenage girl accused of fatally shooting 14-year-old Endia Martin in 2014 has been indicted on federal weapons charges, for allegedly providing her niece with the revolver used in the slaying.
Police said it appears three "bladed weapons" were used to kill five of the six family members found slain in their Gage Park home last week.
Interim Police Supt. John Escalante said he's "pretty confident" the slaying of three generations of a Gage Park family will be solved, but it will take some time.
Six members of one family – spanning three generations – were found murdered last week. CBS 2's Roseanne Tellez reports.
Carlos Verduzco, 40, hasn't been seen since Jan. 31, when he and his nephew asked a friend to drive them to northwest Indiana to collect a debt.
Hundreds of people gathered on the front lawn of a home in the Gage Park neighborhood where six members of the same family were found dead last Thursday.
Police continue to process evidence gathered inside the Gage Park bungalow where a family of six was murdered, reports WBBM's Bob Roberts.
Relatives have confirmed the six people killed in a Gage Park home on Thursday were three generations of the same family.
Six people were found dead inside a Gage Park home on the South Side on Thursday and Chicago police are conducting a murder investigation.
