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 …
A recent United Airlines passenger claims the carrier added insult to injury after she complained of another passenger’s alleged disgusting behavior. According to BuzzFeed News, 26-year-old Genevieve Pascolla, a photographer living in Illinois, boarded a plane home from London on July 4 and was seated next to a man she claimed went on to masturbate …
A Chicago man found beaten to death inside his home on Sunday was said to have fathered 43 children. ABC7 reports John Hearring, 63, was beaten over the head and left for dead in his apartment off of North Leamington Avenue in Chicago’s South Austin neighborhood. He was well-known around the neighborhood and no one could …
A drug store manager in Illinois is under fire this week for allegations that he called police on a customer because he did not recognize the coupon she had attempted to redeem. According to a now-deleted social media post from Camilla Hudson, the black woman had attempted to use the coupon on Friday night at …
