Teen Expected To Be Charged As An Adult In Murder Of Grandmother During Carjacking Attempt In Hegewisch
Most of Ruzich's family and friends were together celebrating her life as they got word of the arrest.
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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.
He was sitting in his car in River North with the windows down. The next minute, he felt the stinging pain of punches to the face.
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.
A woman spoke only to CBS 2 earlier this week after she was carjacked in broad daylight outside her home in Bucktown. As CBS 2's Tara Molina reported, police tracked down the woman's car with two people inside. But both were back on the street hours later – and we asked why.
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.
Police said the teen was arrested Monday in the South Austin neighborhood, after he was identified as one of the carjackers who stole a car by force from a 43-year-old man in the 4100 block of West 14th Street on July 13.
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An 18-year-old has been charged in a carjacking in West Town.
Witnesses told police two carjackers tried to take the man's vehicle, and punched him in the head.
Police said two 16-year-old boys carjacked a 29-year-old man at gunpoint around 4:40 p.m. Thursday on the 1200 block of West Madison Street.
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