Hours after Chicago police announced murder charges against two men for the fatal shooting of a 7-year-old boy in Humboldt Park, prosecutors dropped the case against one of the men during a bail hearing on Thanksgiving afternoon.
Prosecutors say a woman with the cognitive abilities of a 6-year-old was sexually assaulted by a residential care facility worker who was on electronic monitoring for allegedly possessing a firearm while he was on bail for shooting a man in 2020.
A Chicago man was driving left of the center line at about 75 mph when he collided with another car on Michigan Avenue, killing the other driver and injuring six people, including himself, prosecutors said Wednesday.
Cook County sheriff’s office investigators found nearly $1 million worth of narcotics, over $11,000 cash, and a gun in the home of a Chicago man who was on electronic monitoring for a pending narcotics and firearms case, officials said. He is also on probation for manufacture-delivery of cocaine.
Federal prosecutors say a Chicago man robbed an undercover ATF agent during what was supposed to be an illegal gun sale in a Bronzeville grocery store parking lot last week.
A 16-year-old boy and two adults are in custody for the slaying of 7-year-old Akeem Briscoe, who was killed by a bullet intended for someone else as he washed his hands inside his family’s Humboldt Park home last month.
FBI agents in Alabama have arrested a man that Chicago police believe shot and killed a Greyhound bus employee outside the company’s West Loop terminal in October.
Prosecutors say a Chicago man drove a stolen Land Rover into a River North Walgreens on Monday afternoon. The 2019 Land Rover Discovery was reported stolen from O’Hare International Airport earlier in the day.
Salvador Reitinger received a 12-year sentence for his second carjacking, but got out of prison in July after serving less than 5 years. Now, Chicago police say, he shot and tried to kill a security guard.
Chicago police are investigating two armed robberies that occurred Monday morning in Wicker Park and Humboldt Park. Another robbery was reported in Logan Square on Sunday afternoon.