One man is in custody after a mass stabbing attack in a Rockford, Illinois, neighborhood on Wednesday. Police Chief Carla Redd said that three people died on the scene and a fourth died at a local hospital. She said that not all the victims were stabbed, and none were shot. One person was in critical …
An Illinois mother was sentenced last week to 35 years in prison for beating to death her 8-month-old daughter in 2017. Shanquilla Garvey, 30, pleaded guilty to first degree murder in the death of Cherish Freeman on December 20, 2017. Will County State’s Attorney James Glasgow said that Garvey was living at the Bel-Air Motel …
An Illinois car salesman was found shot to death in Chicago nearly two weeks ago after he took two people out on a test drive and never returned. Crisoforo Osorio-Gonzalez took two customers out on February 9 from 21st Auto Sales in Rockford, according to the business owner who declined to be identified. The owner …
An Illinois man has been charged with attempted murder after he allegedly stabbed his girlfriend’s 9-year-old daughter multiple times. The Beach Park Fire Department transported the girl by ambulance to Advocate Condell Medical Center in Libertyville, where she was reported to be in critical condition, The Lake and McHenry County Scanner reported. The Lake County …
An Illinois man suspected in the shootin deaths of eight people in Illinois was found dead Monday night in Texas. US Marshals confronted Romeo Nance in Natalia, Texas, at about 8:30 p.m., and the confrontation ended when Nance shot himself, the Country Herald reported. Joliet Police launched an extensive manhunt for the Nance, who was …
A suburban Chicago village was the scene of a quadruple murder Sunday morning, when a husband and father allegedly shot his wife and three adult daughters to death. Police arrived at the Tinley Park home just before 11:30 a.m. and found four people dead inside, all with gunshot wounds. The father of the family was …
Four people pleaded guilty Tuesday in an Illinois murder-for-hire plot that left a woman dead and her husband seriously injured. Rebecca and Douglas Bolin were shot on October 22, 2021, by gunmen engaged by their then-15-year-old daugther, Dahlia Bolin, who was the first to plead guilty — to first degree murder, first degree attempted murder, …
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 …
An Illinois man pleaded guilty this week to setting a fire that killed his girlfriend’s mother in 2022. Madison County State’s Attorney Thomas Haine said that Michael Sloan Jr., 41, could face up to 50 years in prison for the “especially heinous and cruel crime,” KSDK reported. Prosecutors say Sloan got into an argument with …
A Illinois woman and her cousin were found fatally wounded Tuesday night, and their suspected killer was found dead Wednesday morning from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound in a park a mile away. The Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office identified the victims as Jessica Hughes, 29, and Myeshia Newby, 19, WLS reported. Family members said …
A Florida man has been accused of gunning down his half-brother on Christmas Day in a “senseless” shooting that apparently stemmed from the brother’s unsuccessful search for his missing cell phone. Kendall Yarborough, 28, was visiting family in Illinois for the holidays, DuPage County State’s Attorney Bob Berlin said in a statement. On Christmas Day, …
A 63-year-old Illinois man was sentenced last week to 10 years in prison for the attempted murder of his estranged wife in 2019. Patrick O’Brien was caught on a neighbor’s security camera chasing his wife from their home on the neighbor’s back patio on December 21, 2019, and stabbing her in the chest, the Will …
