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 …
Authorities said an Illinois mother was killed Monday evening when a drunk driver mowed her down as she pushed a broken-down vehicle off the road. WLS reported that Aries Cobian, 29, and her cousin were pushing a disabled Oldsmobile down a road in Streamwood when Hinigo Olvera, 67, rear-ended Cobian, pinning her between the two vehicles. A …
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 …
Authorities in Illinois have arrested a man for placing his toddler inside of a locked trunk outside of a business in Norridge earlier this month. According to the New York Post, 28-year-old Boguslaw Matlak is facing a misdemeanor count of child endangerment over what he claimed was a closely controlled experiment. He defended his actions …
A discarded cigarette reportedly helped police in Illinois identify a suspect in the 2009 stabbing death of a young mother whose body was found in her home. According to The News-Gazette, Michael Henslick, 30, was charged with the November 2, 2009, murder of Holly Cassano, 22, whose body was discovered by her mother in their home in …
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 …
An Illinois couple is demanding answers days after they say animal control mistakenly euthanized their 6-year-old dog. Fox News reported that it was August 3 when a maintenance worker made an unannounced visit to Tony and Jennifer Wang’s backyard. Upon entering the backyard, Tony said Moses, his Labrador and shepherd mix, became startled and bit the worker. Jennifer …
An Illinois couple is accused of keeping their 10-year-old daughter imprisoned in the basement since the beginning of the year because they thought she was possessed by a demon. Randy Swopes, 48, and Katherine Swopes, 49, were arrested Tuesday after officers arrived at their Waukegan home amid reports that someone was being held hostage in …
An Illinois mother is accused of leaving her 2-month-old daughter in a hot car while she was inside her home guzzling booze. Police reportedly arrived at the East Chicago home on June 15 following reports of a disturbance. There, the baby’s father told officers that his daughter’s mother, Alejandra Feliciano, 34, had left their child in …
A Chicago area man was arrested last week on suspicion of violently abusing a dog. According to the Chicago Sun Times, 24-year-old Isaac Goodlow is expected to face criminal charges including felony animal cruelty after he was allegedly caught by Chicago Police on surveillance camera dragging a dog along a sidewalk. A police report claims …
An investigation is underway after an 81-year-old woman’s body was found in two plastic bins inside her Illinois home. According to WLS, officers performing a wellness check on June 10 discovered Thana Muhammad’s body in her basement. Sources told the network that the octogenarian had been “cut in half.” Meanwhile, police said she had sustained “severe …
