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Weekend Blotter: Teen Breaks Out Of Police Station

By Samantha Abernethy in News on May 6, 2012 6:45PM


  • A 15-year-old boy managed to bust his handcuffs and break out of the 11th District police station on the West Side. Police say the handcuffs "malfunctioned." [Tribune]

  • The boy's mother called his probation officer, though, and he was quickly returned to the station. [Tribune]

  • Ten people were shot from Saturday afternoon to Sunday morning, including one man who died after being shot on the Lower West Side. A 12-year-old girl was shot in the left foot while standing on a sidewalk in East Garfield Park Saturday evening. The girl's family didn't cooperate with investigation. [Tribune]

  • Gun violence over the weekend left 15 wounded and two dead. [CBS]

  • A 59-year-old woman was found stabbed to death in her home in Lawndale. [CBS]

  • A 46-year-old woman was beaten and sexually assaulted on the Southwest Side. [Sun-Times]

  • A suburban man was shot to death in Pilsen early Sunday morning. [CBS]

  • A traffic stop near Gurnee yielded a loaded gun, some crack cocaine and a woman who'd been missing. [CBS]

  • An 81-year-old woman was hit and killed by an SUV on Devon Avenue in West Rogers Park. [CBS]

  • Two men were killed in a drive-by shooting in the Princeton Park neighborhood Thursday evening. [Sun-Times]