A man accused of sexually assaulting a 19-year-old woman at gunpoint during a home invasion in Auburn Gresham last Friday morning was caught after detectives learned he pawned two PlayStations taken from the victim’s home, prosecutors said Wednesday.
Prosecutors have charged a 55-year-old man with raping a 19-year-old woman at gunpoint during a home invasion in Auburn Gresham last Friday, an attack that the victim and others reported in nine 911 calls that went unassigned for hours because Chicago police had no officers available to respond.
A woman who was raped at gunpoint by a home invader in Gresham waited for hours for Chicago police to respond to her emergency call because the district had no officers available to handle it, according to police dispatch recordings.
For four days, a Chicago man emailed the city’s Office of Inspector General warning that he planned to kill his neighbor. On the fifth day, according to prosecutors, he did. And, incredibly, it happened almost a year after Chicago police failed to arrest him for allegedly shooting another neighbor outside the same South Side two-flat.
A driver was going 63 mph in a 30 mph zone when he slammed into a woman on a three-wheeled motorcycle, prosecutors said. Then he got out, asked a witness if he had killed someone, and walked away.
Two gunshot victims experienced delayed emergency responses on Sunday because people who heard the gunfire could give police only general locations, making it harder for officers to quickly find them. One victim, whose 911 call disconnected, appears to have waited 17 minutes for help to arrive.
A Chicago man who lured two firefighters into his home by reporting a gas leak, then barricaded them inside at knifepoint while awaiting trial in a decades-old murder case, has been sentenced to 28 years in prison, court records show.
The FBI is offering a reward of up to $10,000 for information leading to the identification of four gunmen who opened fire at an Auburn Gresham gas station last month, killing two people and critically injuring two others.
Chicago police are searching for four masked gunmen who opened fire on an Auburn Gresham gas station earlier this month, killing two people and critically wounding two others.
A 15-year-old boy joined two adult men in carrying out a double murder that left two teenagers dead and another man wounded inside an Auburn Gresham home last autumn, according to prosecutors.
A Chicago Public Schools counselor who described himself as being committed to helping people recover from trauma is now accused of grooming two students, sexually assaulting one of them, and soliciting their sexually explicit images.
A group of armed robbers has been targeting people as they leave parties in the Chatham, Grand Crossing, and Auburn Gresham neighborhoods, police said, hitting victims at least nine times since February in what investigators have identified as a linked crime pattern. And five of those robberies happened on the same block.
A three-time convicted burglar is facing burglary charges again after a South Side homeowner allegedly caught him breaking into a garage and shot him in the leg.