Police have arrested a 15-year-old boy for the murder of a postal worker on Chicago’s South Side in July. The boy, whose name has not been released, was arrested in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, WBBM reported. Octavia Redmond, 48, was shot multiple times while delivering mail on July 19. She was rushed to Advocate Christ Medical …
The Cook County Medical Examiner said Friday that a woman found dead entangled in baggage handling machinery at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport died by suicide. Virginia Vinton, 57, was found dead before 8 a.m. Thursday in the baggage area of Terminal 5, as CrimeOnline previously reported. Surveillance video showed Vinton, from Waxhaw, North Carolina, entering …
Chicago police have made an arrest in the shooting death of a pregnant woman found in an alley in February. Dontrell Anderson, 26, has been charged with first degree murder and concealing a homicidal death, WBBM reported. He was taken into custody in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, earlier this week and extradited to Illinois, to face trial …
A “customer” argued with a drive-thru worker at a Chicago fast food restaurant early Wednesday morning and shot her. The 20-year-old woman was taken to a hospital in fair condition with a gunshot wound to her right arm, WMAQ reported. Police didn’t say how many shots the gunman fired, but at least one shattered a …
Armed gunmen robbed a restaurant in Chicago’s Chinatown late Tuesday night while patrons were still inside dining. The two suspects demanded money from the cashier and the diners, WLS reported. All of them complied. The incident took place at the Ken Kee restaurant just before midnight. The two suspects fled the restaurant on foot. Police …
A federal judge in Chicago has sentenced Heather Mack, who admitted conspiring with her then-boyfriend to kill her mother in Bali in 2014, to 26 years in prison. Mack, 28, was convicted in the beating death of Sheila von Wiese-Mack in Indonesia and served seven years in prison there, but US District Judge Matthew Kennelly …
Chicago police have asked for help finding a 16-year-old boy last seen in the city’s Washington Park neighborhood. Jasiim Montoya was last seen wearing a black jacket with fur around the hood, a gray and purple hooded sweatshirt, and black pants, according to Chicago police. He is probably carrying a backpack. Montoya is 5 feet …
The daughter of a woman accused of killing a pregnant teen and cutting her unborn child out of the womb has pleaded guilty and agreed to testify against her mother. Desiree Figueroa agreed to a plea deal that will send her to prison for 30 years in the murder of Marlen Ochoa-Lopez in 2019, the …
At least 15 people were shot, two of them critically, as a Halloween house party in southwest Chicago came to an end in the early hours Sunday. Police said the gunman fled the scene but was captured nearby and taken into custody, WBBM reported. A handgun was recovered, they said. A witness told WBBM that …
A woman was killed and eight others wounded early Sunday morning when people got out of a vehicle in Chicago’s North Lawndale neighborhood and opened fire on a group of women gathered outside. One of the wounded, a 28-year-old woman, was shot eight times in the torso and was at Mt. Sinai Hospital in critical …
James Lewis was convicted to trying to extort $1 million from Johnson & Johnson, but investigators never found enough evidence to charge him with murder.
A Chicago mother has been charged with murder after she allegedly told her 14-year-old son to shot a man she was fighting with at a restaurant over the weekend. According to WMAQ, Carlishia Hood, 35, reportedly got into an argument with 32-year-old Jeremy Brown while in line for food at Maxwell Street Express, prosecutors said …
