After being injured by a concealed carry holder’s bullet fragment, the 19-year-old stabbed the rear window of an arriving CPD patrol car and threatened its two officers with a knife, prosecutors said.
Anthony Brown was on electronic monitoring for two felony gun cases when he hijacked a Lyft driver at gunpoint and then murdered a 15-year-old who was walking home from school on Tuesday afternoon, prosecutors said.
Months after prosecutors reportedly declined to file murder charges against “mutual combatants” in a “Wild West” shootout, a man is being slapped with felony gun charges in the case.
A man who has a history of allegations of randomly attacking people is accused of randomly attacking four women in the Loop on Tuesday afternoon. He is also charged with trying to rob two of the victims.
The Wieners Circle said the man threw snowballs at their staff and broke the store’s front door glass after they asked him to put on a COVID mask Wednesday night.
A CTA security contractor who allegedly shot himself and caused a 16-year-old girl to suffer a graze wound when a gun in his jacket pocket fired during a dust-up on a Red Line train near Belmont in 2020 has been sentenced to probation.
A 39-year-old woman is in custody after she grabbed and bit a CTA bus driver as he drove his Chicago Avenue route in Noble Square late Wednesday, police said.
Less than 2 months after the county introduced its new “affordable bail” program, Daryl Williams was given a recognizance bond for a felony gun case. Three months later, still on bond, he got another gun and killed a man.
A Chicago woman has been charged with vandalizing a memorial to slain Chicago Police Officer Ella French that was set up in the Thompson Center following the 29-year-old cop’s murder last summer.