Weekend Blotter: Indiana Man Arrested For Threatening School Shooting
By Amy Cavanaugh in News on Dec 16, 2012 7:00PM
• A 16-year-old girl died in a car accident in Lockport. [Tribune]
• One person is dead and two are injured after overnight shootings on the West Side. [Tribune]
• A man from Cedar Lake, Indiana was arrested after threatening to set his wife on fire and kill people at an elementary school. [Sun-Times] The ammunition was worth $100,000 and he lived less than 1,000 feet from Jane Ball Elementary School. [NBC Chicago]
• A gang member has been charged with in last week's robbery attempt on an off-duty Chicago police officer who had his two-year-old son with him. [DNAInfo.com]
• The man shot and killed by police yesterday while fleeing a robbery was carrying a flashlight. [DNAInfo.com]
• A man texted his friends that he was kidnapped, setting off an hours-long police investigation, but it was really a joke and he was drinking at a bar. He was arrested. [Tribune]