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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.
Wendy Tolbert, 46, was ordered held until trial in the attack Friday inside her Logan Square home that left her 4-year-old son dead from 36 stab wounds. Her two older children were also wounded. Prosecutors say Tolbert has a history of mental illness and was diagnosed with cancer.
It happened outside a restaurant as people were leaving an album release party for Chicago rapper Mello Buckzz. Another mass shooting happened at a club that operated from the same address in 2022.
Se ordenó la detención de Charles Leto, de 55 años de edad y residente de Lake View, antes del juicio. Está acusado de asesinato e intento de asesinato por la muerte a tiros de Marjay Dotson, de 15 años de edad, y herir a Jeremy Herred, de 14, primo de Laquan McDonald, quien fue asesinado por un policía de Chicago en 2014.
Jacqui Korvas Michels wasn’t surprised to learn that a neighbor who shot her dogs in February 2023 in Lake View, killing one, is now accused of killing a 15-year-old and wounding a 14-year-old after a confrontation last week. In both cases, suspect Charles Leto said he acted in self-defense.
Charles Leto, 55, of Lake View, was ordered detained before trial. He is charged with murder and attempted murder in the shooting death of 15-year-old Marjay Dotson and the wounding of 14-year-old Jeremy Herred, a cousin of Laquan McDonald, who was shot to death by a Chicago cop in 2014.
One patient’s family said temperatures spiked at West Suburban Medical Center during the weekend heat wave. Patients had already been evacuated from Weiss Memorial Hospital after the AC didn’t turn on.
Temperatures inside rose to 90 degrees as most of the 45 patients at Weiss were moved to the hospital’s sister facility, West Suburban Medical Center in Oak Park.
La protesta de ayer fue organizada por la Coalición por los Derechos de los Inmigrantes y Refugiados de Illinois (ICIRR) y otras organizaciones. Cientos de personas marcharon de la Congress Plaza al Trump Tower.
Thursday’s protest was arranged by the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights and other organizations. Several hundred people marched from Congress Plaza to Trump Tower.