Tag: Chicago
Woman Killed Stranger Who Slapped Stepson On Hoops Court, Prosecutors Say
COOK COUNTY CRIMINAL COURTHOUSE — A West Side woman shot a stranger to death who slapped her 13-year-old stepson on a basketball court, prosecutors said Thursday.
The incident started Aug. 8 in the late afternoon as the boy played basketball near Springfield Avenue and Polk Street in the Garfield Park neighborhood, Assistant State’s Attorney Bryan Grissman said during a bond hearing Thursday.
The 13-year-old got in an argument with 22-year-old Ireal Mitchell, and Mitchell slapped the teen, prosecutors said.
The boy went home and told his stepmother, Sirena Crosby, 38, what happened, Grissman said. Crosby went to the basketball court to confront Mitchell. After a short time, she returned home.
That’s when she asked a man “to get a gun,” Grissman said. She and the accomplice got into Crosby’s silver Chevy Malibu and headed toward the basketball courts, according to prosecutors.
Crosby spotted Mitchell in the 800 block of South Springfield Avenue, Grissman said. As Mitchell walked by Crosby’s car, she pointed a gun from the driver’s side window and fired several shots — fatally striking Mitchell in his arm and back, police and prosecutors said.
Crosby then sped off, Grissman said.
The shooting was captured on surveillance footage, prosecutors said, and multiple witnesses were able to identify Crosby and her silver Chevy Malibu.
Cook County Judge Adam Bourgeois Jr. on Thursday ordered Crosby, of the 400 block of North Springfield Avenue, held in lieu of $3 million bail.
Girl, 8, Rescued by Mother After Being Choked Unconscious by Man in Restroom of Chicago Restaurant
A man faces multiple charges after he allegedly choked an 8-year-old girl until she lost consciousness in the restroom of a Chicago restaurant last weekend.
The incident happened around 1:15 p.m. May 7 at Jason’s Deli along the 1200 block of South Canal Street in the South Loop neighborhood. According to police, the girl was inside the restaurant with her mother, but the two got separated and the girl went into the restroom.
33-year-old Reese Hartstirn entered the restroom and grabbed her, choking the girl until she passed out, police said.
According to a release from the Chicago Police Department, Hartstirn picked up the girl’s limp body and carried her into a stall, then closed the door.
Police say when the girl’s mother came into the stall to rescue her daughter, Hartstirn shoved the woman.
Other people in the deli who found out what happened held Hartstirn until police officers could respond.
Officers took him to the First District police station, where he became aggressive and started swinging his fists at an officer, according to authorities.
The girl was transported to Comer Children’s Hospital for treatment, but officials have not updated her condition.
The release said that Hartstirn was charged with a felony count of aggravated kidnapping and a felony count of aggravated battery to a child under 13. He was also cited with a misdemeanor count of aggravated assault to a peace officer and a misdemeanor count of battery.
Jason’s Deli released a statement to WGN saying:
We’re blessed to have a wonderful relationship with the Chicago Police Department. Many of them are our customers and because of their connection to our deli, this unfortunate situation was handled very quickly. We’re proud of how our team members responded and thankful that we have the kind of customers that are willing to lend a hand in a difficult situation. We continue to work hard every day to make every customer happy.
A Cook County judge Monday ordered Hartstirn held without bail.
He is scheduled to appear in court May 16.
via: http://ktla.com/2016/05/14/man-chokes-8-year-old-girl-unconscious-in-restaurant-bathroom-police/
Mother Charged With Throwing Newborn Baby With Umbilical Still Attached From Chicago High-RIse
A 19-year-old woman charged with murdering her newborn daughter by dropping the infant out the window of an Chicago high-rise building was ordered held without bail Saturday.
Mubashra Uddin, facing a first-degree murder charge, was not in court because she was hospitalized. The infant, now being called Baby Jane Uddin in police reports, landed in a grassy parkway with her umbilical cord still attached late Wednesday night.
The Cook County Medical Center ruled the infant’s death a homicide from blunt force trauma. Prosecutors said the girl suffered complex skull fractures, a fractured spine, a broken left shoulder, fractured left and right ribs and a lacerated aorta, lacerated liver and lacerated bowel and suffered from blood in the abdomen.
Prosecutors said Uddin, a student at DeVry University, hid her pregnancy from her family because she knew her Pakistani Muslim parents would not approve, the Chicago Tribune reported, and covered up her pregnancy by wearing baggy clothes.
Uddin went into labor Wednesday evening in the apartment where the teen lives with her family. Prosecutors said Uddin gave birth around 11:20 p.m. to a full-term, 7-pound, 11-ounce baby girl in the bedroom she shared with her younger sister.
When Uddin heard her mother coming down the hallway, prosecutors said she panicked and dropped the girl out the window. A man visiting his girlfriend at the building in the 800 block of W. Eastwood Avenue in Uptown spotted the newborn baby in the grass, thinking it was a doll.
The baby was still apparently breathing when brought to Weiss Memorial Hospital, mere blocks away from the high rise building where Uddin lived with her family. The infant died around 12:25 a.m. Thursday.
Police located Uddin from talking to neighbors who told them the teen may be pregnant. Prosecutors said police found blood in the bedroom and bathroom of the family’s apartment, as well as bloody sheets and bloody scissors, the paper said.
Uddin is due in Cook County Violence Court on Monday.
via: http://patch.com/illinois/lakeview/teen-mom-hid-pregnancy-secretly-gave-birth-bedroom-prosecutors
Chief Keef says he’s running for mayor of Chicago
CHICAGO — Rapper Chief Keef says he is running for mayor of Chicago. He announced his intentions on Twitter on Monday. Keef is angry with Mayor Rahm Emanuel for canceling a concert because the mayor’s office said it posed a significant public safety risk. “Yall gonna love me in the Office (sic),” Keef said in his Tweet. Emanuel was sworn in for a four year term in May.
The concert was held in Hammond, Ind., on Saturday, but it only lasted four minutes before police shut it down. Keef had to appear by hologram from Beverly Hills. He was unable to attend the concert in person because of outstanding warrants for his arrest in the city of Chicago. Critics say Chief Keef’s rap lyrics often promote drug use, gangs and violence. The concert was intended to raise money for Dillan Harris, the 13-month-old who was killed by a car trying to outrun police earlier this month. An associate of Chief Keef, fellow Chicago rapper Marvin Carr, had been shot and killed moments before, allegedly by the driver of that car.
via: http://wgntv.com/2015/07/28/rapper-chief-keef-says-hes-running-for-mayor-of-chicago/
Is this dude for real? Or just another publicity stunt?
Glo Gang Rapper Capo SHOT DEAD IN CHICAGO
Glory Boyz Entertainment rapper, and Chief Keef associate, Capo was killed in Chicago today. In a video that surfaced online, people are tending to a badly wounded man, bleeding heavily.
According to a report by the Chicago Tribune, a shooting occurred at 1:40pm this afternoon on the 7700 block of South Kingston Avenue on the city’s South Side in which the unnamed victim was shot in the hip and back and taken to the Advocate Christ Medical Center in serious-to-critical condition. The suspected shooters ran over and killed a 1-year old boy sitting in a stroller 20 minutes after the shooting.
The Chicago Tribune reports that the shooting victim was pronounced dead at Advocate Christ Medical Center.
a 13 month old baby died after the shooters drove off and ran over the baby’s cart, i just don’t get what is going on
this is so sad and sick!! like iv’e said time & time again, once you get money, you can’t just be in the hood doing the same oh’ same oh.
The sad thing is these guys will be the 1st to type on twitter about how sad it is, my BROTHER’s gone,
but will be pushing and promoting the same murder murder, kill, kill lyrics to the youth in within a week.
chief keef needs to wake up, this is the 3rd person close to his camp that done died in the past 2 yrs.
first his half bro, then blood money now capo smh. #ripcapo r.i.p to the innocent baby who died as well.
police currently have two suspects in custody.
A disturbing video is floating around online showing Capo in a pool of blood on the sidewalk just minutes after the shooting.