Crime
Police found a woman with stab wounds in a residence in the 500 block of South Laramie Avenue at 8 p.m. Monday. She’s hospitalized in critical condition. A 16-year-old boy was taken into custody at the scene.
Marni Yang was found guilty of shooting Rhoni Reuter, the girlfriend of former Bear Shaun Gayle, to death in 2007 inside Reuter’s Deerfield home. Reuter was pregnant at the time. Yang was sentenced to life in prison in 2011.
A motorist is facing DUI charges after 69-year-old Rosa M. Hernandez was hit while crossing the street to attend St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church on the Near West Side.
Two 24-year-old women were walking home Sunday when they were jumped — and one of them shot — by three men in a silver SUV.
A fire erupted Monday morning and damaged at least four buildings in the 2000 block of Vermont Street. A dog remains missing.
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Kenneth Weddington, 28, faces two felony charges for allegedly threatening a public official and disorderly conduct related to making false bomb threats, police said. The public official was not identified.
A blue Chevrolet pickup truck hit the two on the motorcycle in the 7100 block of South Michigan Avenue at 6:33 p.m. Sunday, police said.
A 17-year-old boy was approached by a person on an electric scooter in the 2100 block of West Granville Avenue at 5:15 p.m. Sunday, then robbed and shot, police say. The teen is hospitalized in critical condition.
A child was hit by a dark SUV, which investigators believe to be a four-door Lincoln Corsair, going westbound in the 800 block of East Marquette Road at 8:51 p.m., police said. The driver fled the scene.
The man, 41, was found with multiple gunshot wounds to the body, police said.
The cyclist, a 56-year-old man, was struck by a motorist July 5 in the 6300 block of South Halsted Street. He died Friday, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office, and his death is ruled an accident.
A male whose age wasn’t known was struck by a vehicle and found on the pavement about 11:40 p.m. Friday in the 18400 block of South LaGrange Road, Orland Park police said. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Lontray Clark, 23, was arrested in Springfield on Thursday and charged with 19 felonies, including first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder and aggravated arson. He was ordered detained pending trial on Saturday.
Officers found Prince Johnson shot several times around 9:40 p.m. in the 13200 block of South Langley Avenue. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Lontray Clark, 23, is accused of intentionally starting a fire June 26 at an apartment building at 5222 W. North Ave., killing four people, including a 5-year-old boy and a pregnant woman, and injuring at least three others. Twenty-eight people were left homeless. Clark was arrested in Springfield.
The victim, a male whose age wasn’t known, was shot about 4 p.m. Friday in the 6200 block of South Rhodes Avenue, police said. He died at a hospital. No one is in custody.
Jeremy Miller, 35, was fatally shot and another man, 30, was wounded in a shooting about 2 a.m. Thursday in the 3700 block of South Wells Street, officials said. The second man is in good condition. No one is in custody.
Daniel Alvarado, an avowed Two-Six gang member, allegedly shot and killed Moises Suarez on July 5 in Little Village while on electronic monitoring anklet, prosecutors said Friday. Prosecutors opposed his being released in a March gun case.
The rapper’s father is facing federal gun charges. Prosecutors noted one alleged gun sale happened just days after the mass shooting but clarified there was no evidence linking Melvin Doyle to the attack at his daughter’s party.