Dakotah Earley, the 23-year-old culinary student who was shot three times by an armed robber in Lincoln Park on Friday, is on life support and remains in critical condition, according to his family.
A Morgan Park man faces felony charges for robbery and theft involving two victims on Red Line trains after someone recognized him in a Chicago police “seeking to identify” bulletin, prosecutors said Saturday.
The armed men who brutally shot a 23-year-old man during a robbery in Lincoln Park on Friday morning also fired shots at another robbery victim on Wednesday.
A newly-launched GoFundMe campaign identifies the victim of a brutal shooting and robbery in Lincoln Park as 23-year-old culinary student Dakotah Earley. The attack was caught on video.
Chicago police are investigating at least five armed robberies that unfolded in Lakeview and Lincoln Park on Thursday night and early Friday, including one in which an offender shot the victim three times at close range. That confrontation was captured on video.
The FBI says a man tried to rob two banks in the Loop within 15 minutes on Wednesday afternoon. He didn’t get any money, but the feds are still looking for him.
A suburban man was shot while driving in River North on Thursday evening, police said. Five people have been shot on the Near North Side since last Friday, three of them in River North. Both areas are experiencing a spike in shootings this year.
Charges are filed in this week’s armed robbery at the Roosevelt CTA station as hold-ups reach a 12-year high on the city’s downtown and North Side train lines.
Police in Puerto Rico are looking for a Chicago man after they found a woman’s torso in an apartment on the island this week. Daunta Head, 53, is a seven-time convicted burglar who recently completed parole for a string of residential burglaries in Lakeview.