An Illinois man will likely face upgraded charges after his girlfriend’s 6-year-old son — whom he allegedly abused — died from his injuries on Friday. The Daily Herald reported that Jayceon Wright was transported to Advocate Condell Medical Center in Libertyville last Monday after his mother found him unresponsive on the floor of the home …
A 19-year-old Illinois man has been charged with breaking into his neighbor’s home and trying to beat him to death with a pipe wrench because he’s gay. A police affidavit says that Ethan Dickerson told the unnamed 60-year-old victim, “You know why I have to do this,” when the man asked why he was being …
A 21-year-old Chicago man shot and killed the 12-year-old brother of his friend last month after the boy teased him about his girlfriend. Jaran Hughes, 21, was ordered held without bond on Wednesday. He’s been charged with murder in the January 2 death of Marcel Wilson as the boy was playing video games with his …
A 16-year-old Chicago boy on electronic monitoring carjacked a rideshare driver this week and drove the SUV to another neighborhood, where he pulled up to a 15-year-old boy and shot him 10 times, killing him. Anthony Brown has been charged as an adult with first-degree murder in the death of Michael Brown. He’s also been …
An Illinois man was arrested on Friday and charged with trapping a woman in a home and beating her for several days. The McLean County State’s Attorney’s Office said that dispatchers sent Bloomington police to the scene, where they found the victim with multiple cuts and bruises, severe burns and head and wrist injuries consistent …
Earlier this month, an Illinois judge reversed an 18-year-old man’s sexual assault conviction — finding that the 148 days he spent in jail was “plenty of punishment.” Drew Clinton had turned 18 two weeks before sexually assaulting Cameron Vaughan, 16, at a graduation party on May 30. Vaughan, who waived her anonymity, told WGEM that …
The 6-year-old boy died of hypothermia after being held under an ice cold shower.
A 6-year-old North Chicago boy reported missing on Wednesday and found dead Friday night in Indiana was actually killed late last month while being “punished,” prosecutors said Sunday. Damari Perry’s bother, 20-year-old Jeremiah Perry made his first court appearance Sunday morning, and prosecutors used the opportunity to describe Damari’s final hours. Lake County, Illinois, prosecutors …
The mother and two siblings of a 6-year-old North Chicago boy have been charged in connection with his death after investigators found his body Saturday in Gary, Indiana. Damari Perry was initially reported missing on Wednesday afternoon, and his family said that he disappeared after a man and a woman drove him and his 16-year-old …
A 6-year-old boy reporting missing from Chicago’s northern suburbs earlier this week was found dead Saturday morning near an abandoned house in Gary, Indiana. The North Chicago Police Department said that three adult members of Damari Perry’s family “believed to be responsible for Damari’s death are in police custody.” Other juvenile members of the family …
Two suspects are in custody in the shooting death of an Illinois police sergeant and the wounding of her partner earlier this week. Bradley Police Sgt. Marlene Rittmanic, 49, was killed and Officer Tyler Bailey, 27, was critically wounded Wednesday night when responded to a call about barking dogs left unattended in a car in …
An Illinois man has been charged with the murder of his missing uncle a day after he barricaded himself inside the uncle’s house and held police at bay for six hours. WJOL reported that police were called to a home Joliet’s Cambridge neighborhood on a report of a domestic disturbance. Officers met with a woman …
