Authorities in Illinois have reportedly released images showing the inside of R. Kelly’s Chicago recording studio—a location the singer’s been accused of using to hold women captive. On Tuesday, a judge hit Kelly, 52, with 66 building code violations and ordered that the studio can’t double as a residence. Rolling Stone reported that the “Ignition” …
Authorities in Illinois say a 19-year-old man has been indicted on first-degree murder charges in connection to the death of his girlfriend’s 4-year-old daughter. According to the Chicago Tribune, the young victim, Skylar Mendez, spilled her juice, which allegedly triggered the deadly reaction from Johnathan Fair. The Waukegan man appeared in a Lake County Circuit …
Authorities in Illinois say a fellow law enforcement officer is facing criminal charges related to the sexual assault of two juveniles. According to the New York Post, one of the alleged victims is the 14-year-old daughter of his girlfriend. Police say 43-year-old Luke Hatzipetros entered the girl’s bedroom last month and touched her inappropriately at …
Authorities in Illinois say a man was arrested on suspicion of killing his own mother and dumping her body in an alley earlier this week. According to the New York Post, 25-year-old Robert Wallace is accused of stabbing and beating the victim to death before placing her mortally injured body in a trash can near …
More than a year after an intoxicated 19-year-old girl was found dead in the walk-in freezer at the Crowne Plaza Hotel near Chicago, her family has filed a negligence suit for $50 million against the hotel. As the U.K. Daily Mail reported, the suit was filed on Tuesday and introduces new allegations stemming from an …
Authorities in Illinois say an 80-year-old man is dead and his 50-year-old son is in custody accused of killing him. According to the Chicago Post-Tribune, Michael Yakubec was at St. Mary Medical Center in Chicago in a waiting room after John Yakubec was admitted with serious injuries. Michael Yakubec reportedly faced questions at that time …
Newly-released home surveillance and dashcam footage apparently show an off-duty Illinois police sergeant shooting an unarmed autistic man in a 2017 incident that law enforcement initially portrayed as an armed confrontation. The Guardian reported that footage released Tuesday by the Civilian Office of Police Accountability (COPA) shows Chicago police Seargent Khalil Muhammad shooting then-18-year-old Ricky Hayes in front …
Friends and family members of a pregnant Chicago woman missing for more than a week are pleading with the public to help find her, WMAQ-TV reports. Kierra Coles was last seen Oct. 2, when surveillance video captured the 27-year-old walking near her home on Chicago’s south side. Her family reported her disappearance hours later. “I’m too …
Officials are now offering $20,000 for information about the person behind two fatal shootings in one Illinois neighborhood in two days. WFLD reported that the ATF’s Chicago Field Division announced this weekend that they’re contributing $5,000 to a $15,000 fund raised by the Jewish Federation of Metro Chicago, community activist Raul Montes Jr. and Cook County …
Authorities are investigating after a masked gunman fatally shot two men in Chicago’s Rogers Park neighborhood in a 36-hour period. The Chicago Tribune reported Eliyahu Moscowitz, 24, was shot to death Monday evening on the 1100 block of West Lunt. His death came a day after Douglass Watts, 73, was reportedly shot and killed while walking his …
Illinois police say a mother lied about her 3-year-old son being dead via a Facebook post, and then attempted to drown him in a bathtub last Sunday. Celeste Christian, 21, of Chicago, is facing attempted murder charges after authorities said “someone held the boy underwater,” according to the Chicago Tribune. Officials said the tot survived …
A family is rejecting Chicago police and the medical examiner’s finding that a 15-year-old boy died from a self-inflicted gunshot last week during an on-foot chase with officers. Per the Chicago Sun-Times, Steven Rosenthal’s relatives marched with activists in protest on Sunday after the Cook County medical examiner’s office backed law enforcement’s account, ruling Rosenthal’s death a …
