A man accused of assaulting three strangers with a knife during a rampage in Old Town last year, while on pretrial release for punching a paramedic, has been given a six-year sentence. But with Illinois’ automatic 50% credit for good behavior, the six-year sentence amounts to about three years, and Stampley is also entitled to credit for time already spent in custody, including time on an ankle monitor. He is expected to be released in March 2028.
The bigger story, though, is all too familiar to CWB Chicago readers: the weeks and months before the attacks, when Stampley saw repeated arrests, repeated violations, repeated warnings, and repeated releases by judges who kept putting him back on the street.
A review of Chicago Police Department reports and court records revealed that Stampley, who was usually arrested under the names Raeshaun or Rashaun Stampley rather than Tyshaun, cycled in and out of custody before the Old Town attacks. He missed court dates, picked up new arrests, and repeatedly violated conditions of pretrial release, court records show. Yet each time, he was allowed out, often under electronic monitoring even after he had failed to comply with the program.
His 2025 arrest trail begins around 1 a.m. on March 24 near the Magnificent Mile.
Officers responding to calls about a man removing his clothing found Stampley clothed but intoxicated in the 700 block of North Rush Street, according to a CPD report. Police released him to the fire department so he could be taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital for detox, the report said.
As a paramedic helped him into an ambulance, Stampley allegedly swung and struck the medic on the right side of the face. Police removed him from the ambulance and arrested him for aggravated battery of an EMT, a felony. That offense is not detainable under the SAFE-T Act, and Stampley was released the next day without electronic monitoring. Court records show he missed his next hearing on March 31.
He was not missing for long.
On April 3, police arrested Stampley around 1 a.m. in the 1100 block of West Wilson Avenue. A CPD report said he yelled at a 40-year-old man, “Hey Chinaman! Hey! Yo! I don’t like Chinese men!” before punching the man above the left eye and leaving a bruise.
After the victim called 911, police learned that Stampley had also displayed a kitchen knife and threatened a 20-year-old man who was walking home from work, the report said.
Although officers noted that “upon further investigation” the first victim was not of Asian descent, that fact does not preclude a hate crime charge under Illinois law. What matters is the offender’s perception of the victim. Nonetheless, no hate crime charge was filed. In fact, no felony charges were filed at all.
Stampley instead faced misdemeanor counts of battery and assault with a deadly weapon. Prosecutors dropped the case within weeks.
A few days later, Judge Shelley Sutker-Dermer, who was overseeing the paramedic battery case, placed Stampley on electronic monitoring. She issued an arrest warrant when he stopped appearing for hearings on August 7, 2025. Law enforcement tracked him down and brought him before Sutker-Dermer again in September. She gave him a 15-day jail sanction for violating pretrial release, court records show. But state law cut the sanction in half, and Stampley received another reduction for the six days he had already spent in custody.
Within hours, Stampley was back on the street on electronic monitoring, with permission to leave his home for “work” from 9 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. on weekdays. Less than a month later, on October 5, Stampley was arrested on another misdemeanor battery charge, this time in the 1300 block of West Albion Avenue. Judge Susana Ortiz placed him on electronic monitoring and noted in the record that he “attacked [a] random person” and had a “pending agg batt.”
Eight days later, prosecutors say, Stampley was walking around Old Town with a knife. Shortly before 6 p.m. on October 13, 2025, a 31-year-old man stepped off a bus in the 300 block of West Division Street. Stampley allegedly approached him aggressively and struck him in the shoulder while holding a knife.
After the man began calling 911, Stampley knocked the victim’s phone from behind. The victim later discovered three small cuts in his shirt and followed Stampley until he slipped inside a public library. Moments later, police say, Stampley lunged at a 33-year-old man at the library and swung a knife toward the man’s abdomen. The knife caused a “small pin prick laceration to his stomach” and a hole in the fabric of his jacket, according to prosecutors.
Stampley then approached a 49-year-old man outside the library and swung the knife twice, cutting open the man’s backpack and causing a laceration to his back, prosecutors said.
Cops arrested Stampley nearby after all three victims identified him, but Stampley denied carrying a knife. Incredibly, he was once again only charged with misdemeanors: three counts of battery and three counts of assault with a deadly weapon. However, he was finally detained because of his long list of pretrial release violations, not because the new charges qualified for detention. Prosecutors later decided to replace the misdemeanor charges with five felony aggravated battery counts.
Now, court records show, Stampley has pleaded guilty to two of those aggravated battery with a deadly weapon charges connection with the Old Town attacks and one count of aggravated battery of an EMT. Sutker-Dermer sentenced him to a pair of concurrent 4-year sentences for the Old Town cases and a consecutive 2-year sentence for punching the paramedic, giving him an effective six-year sentence.
