17-Year-Old Charged With River North Robbery, Chinatown Carjacking
A 17-year-old has been charged in two carjackings and an armed robbery throughout the city.
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A 17-year-old has been charged in two carjackings and an armed robbery throughout the city.
A 72-year-old woman was carjacked at gunpoint Thursday night just steps from her senior living home in Logan Square.
Police are searching for two suspects after a 72-year-old woman was carjacked at gunpoint in Logan Square Thursday night.
The boy was charged with one felony count each of aggravated vehicular hijacking, aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, and possession of a controlled substance.
A 37-year-old victim was driving two of the suspects when one of them used a stun gun on the driver's neck.
A 17-year-old charged with murder in the death of Yvonne Ruzich, 70, who was killed in a carjacking attempt in Chicago's Hegewisch neighborhood, is being held without bond.
A woman was carjacked in a bump-and-run incident on Lake Shore Drive West in East Lakeview in broad daylight Saturday.
Most of Ruzich's family and friends were together celebrating her life as they got word of the arrest.
Chicago Police have notified residents of the Northwest Side of two related carjackings that occurred Thursday morning - one of them involving a rideshare driver.
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A beloved grandmother was carjacked and murdered in front of her own adult son in Hegewisch early Monday morning, and police have called the killers cowards.
The teen was arrested after crashing a stolen red car into the front of a Kenwood fitness center Wednesday.
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A teenager has been charged with carjacking a woman in April, and participating in the robbery of an elderly man in March, in separate attacks in the Chatham neighborhood.
The boy has been charged with one felony count of vehicular hijacking, and one misdemeanor count of theft.
Police on Saturday issued an alert about a string of robberies and a carjacking in the city's Lakeview neighborhood, all in less than an hour.
A 17-year-old has been charged in the carjacking of a woman near the Logan Square neighborhood.
The boy is charged with one count each of aggravated vehicular hijacking, armed robbery, aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, and possession of a stolen motor vehicle.
Four teens have been charged in the carjacking of a rideshare driver in the South Austin neighborhood.
A rideshare driver was carjacked by five attackers Wednesday night in the South Austin neighborhood.
Police said he stole the keys and vehicle from a 57-year-old man around 6:30 a.m. on July 25 in the 4400 block of West Madison Street.
A car that was reported carjacked in Chicago ended up crashing after being pursued by Illinois State Police on the Bishop Ford Freeway in the southern suburbs Saturday evening.
The teen is now facing two felony counts of vehicular carjacking with a firearm as well as battery and robbery charges.
Cook County prosecutors said the boy was arrested at his home on Thursday, after the victim of one of the carjackings identified him as the assailant, and he later confessed to two other incidents.
Three boys – the youngest of them just 12 years old – were arrested this weekend in connection with a carjacking in the Avalon Park neighborhood and a chase that followed.
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Lenier Clayton was only 30 years old with so much more life left to live and love to give, his mother said.
Marko Niketic, 17, was killed in a car crash last spring. An alleged drunken driver was speeding at more than 130 mph just before the crash, prosecutors have said.
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Lenier Clayton was only 30 years old with so much more life left to live and love to give, his mother said.
The victim was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center where he was listed in critical condition.
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Earlier, thieves also broke into a restaurant in the South Loop.
