Avalon Park

A 22-year-old man with no prior criminal record placed an Uber Eats order under his own first name, then shot the delivery driver multiple times when the driver refused to hand over the food without a required PIN, prosecutors said.

A 32-year-old transgender woman stabbed a man to death at an Avalon Park gas station after he allegedly made comments about her gender, prosecutors said, as her spouse and 7-year-old son looked on. Surveillance video allegedly showed Kelly Day stabbing 50-year-old Larry Young 13 times, pausing once to adjust her grip on the knife.

A truck driver who struck and killed a 4-year-old boy on a South Side street while driving with a THC level more than three times the legal limit has been sentenced to four years in prison.

A South Side man who was 17 when he gunned down a stranger after a brief shoulder bump outside an Avalon Park gas station in 2021 has been sentenced to 65 years in prison, concluding a case that stretched across nearly four years of litigation, a jury trial, and post-trial filings.

The truck driver who struck and killed a 4-year-old boy on a city street earlier this year was driving with a THC level more than three times the legal limit, prosecutors said this week. James Bernstein, 53, also had cocaine metabolite in his system at the time of the crash, according to the allegations.

Prosecutors say a Chicago man shot and killed a 14-year-old boy during a robbery that netted him nothing more than a cellphone.