Weekend Crime Blotter: Two More Murders In Englewood
By Samantha Abernethy in News on Jan 1, 2012 10:30PM
- Last week we wrote about the decline of crime citywide, everywhere except in Englewood, where crime keeps going up. Not included in that tally is the shooting outside Church's Chicken that left two dead and five wounded. The violence just kept going this weekend. An 18-year-old man was shot and killed in Englewood Saturday afternoon. And around the same time, police found the body of a 25-year-old man, who died of blunt force trauma to the head.
- A 55-year-old man is charged with sexually assaulting a 17-year-old girl at knifepoint on a Blue Line train before midnight on New Year's Eve.
- A Chicago man has been charged with burglarizing six Oak Park churches, taking collections money, a computer and audio equipment, as well as eating from the food pantry.
- A pair of women were arguing outside a store in Uptown, and when a police officer tried to break it up, the two attacked him.
- Two men have been arrested and charged with killing a Waukegan man during a carjacking Thursday morning.
- Two teen boys and a 23-year-old woman were stabbed during a fight in Rogers Park Saturday evening.
- Two men were stabbed during a domestic incident in Old Irving Park Saturday evening.
- A man who has served time for killing a 10-year-old girl while drunk driving has received two more DUIs since he was released from prison 18 months ago.