(Sun Times Wire) A woman and three girls were injured after a man attacked them with a knife during a domestic dispute late Saturday night in Bronzeville on the South Side. The incident happened about 11:20 p.m. in the 4400 block of South Wabash Avenue, Chicago police said. A man became physically violent and attacked…
(ABC) Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx is facing criticism from her opponent over a deadly stabbing at a Wicker Park Walgreens. Sincere Williams, 18, allegedly stabbed 32-year-old Olga Calderon to death one week ago, according to Chicago Police. Police believe he’s also responsible for other crimes in the area. At an event on Sunday,…
(Sun Times Wire) Two teenage girls were stabbed, one fatally, during an argument that started on social media Wednesday in Englewood on the South Side. Three females got into an argument with a group of five other people on the sidewalk about 8:50 p.m. in the 7400 block of South Parnell Avenue when a female…
(ABC) Two men were stabbed and critically injured after an argument became physical early Saturday morning in Chicago’s Loop, according to police. A 30-year-old man was walking with his girlfriend in the 300-block of North Michigan Avenue, near Wacker Drive, about 12:07 a.m., when he got into an argument with a group of people, police…
(Sun Times Wire) Police have released new photos of a man wanted for questioning in a Lincoln Park attack that critically wounded a DePaul graduate with slashes to her face and throat. The man is currently a suspect in a West Town vehicle theft case, but has “similar demographics” to a suspect in the sexually…
(Sun Times Wire) A convicted armed robber who was paroled from prison four months ago has been charged with murder in the fatal stabbing of a man aboard a Red Line train in Chinatown last weekend. Tony Polk, 40, was charged with first-degree murder and is expected to appear in bond court Wednesday. He was…
(Fox) Five people were hurt, four of them seriously, in a stabbing Sunday in Uptown on the North Side. Authorities responded about 6:35 p.m. to calls of multiple people stabbed in the 4500 block of North Sheridan, according to preliminary information from Chicago Fire Media Affairs. Three people were taken in serious to critical condition…
(ABC) A pregnant woman was among two people stabbed after an altercation in the Loop near Millennium Park, police said. According to police, a group of six people were standing on the sidewalk around approximately 11:30 p.m. Saturday waiting for a rideshare vehicle near the intersection of Washington and Wabash when a man and a…
(ABC) Three people were stabbed and at least a dozen others were injured during the Fourth of July celebrations at Navy Pier, according to Chicago police and fire officials. A fight broke out at about 10:10 p.m. after gang signs were flashed, resulting in three people being stabbed, police said. A 14-year-old boy was stabbed…
(Sun Times Wire) Bail was denied on Wednesday for a West Side man accused of fatally stabbing a 58-year-old man in an apparently random attack last month in Lawndale. After being taken into custody on Sunday, 24-year-old Darius Mayze allegedly told detectives, “I just get up and go kill when I feel like it,” Cook…
(ABC) A fight escalated to a stabbing early Tuesday morning in Chicago’s Loop. A witness captured the violent attack on video. A group of people were walking on the sidewalk near State and Lake just before midnight, when they began arguing with three men. Police said that’s when a fight broke out. A 25-year-old man…
(WGN)One woman was killed, and a man was injured after a stabbing on a CTA bus in the Park Manor neighborhood, according to police. Police said the man and woman were arguing on a CTA bus on the 0-100 block of East 63rd Street around 8:30 p.m. when the woman pulled out a knife and…
(Chicago Tribune) Police were questioning a suspect after a 36-year-old woman was stabbed to death and two men were injured in a family fight Saturday evening, police said. The three were stabbed about 5:40 p.m. in the 3300 block of West Marquette Road, police said in a media notification. The woman suffered a stab wound…
(Sun Times Wire) Three women were stabbed Monday night on the Near West Side. The women were stabbed about 8:14 p.m. in the 1300 block of West Washburne, Chicago Police said. A 27-year-old woman was stabbed in the abdomen and arm and transported to Stroger Hospital, police said. Her condition is unknown at this time.…
(dna Info) Bloodied man used Facebook Live to broadcast a standoff between himself and a group of people during an apparent attack in Austin.
The incident happened Tuesday afternoon in the 5200 block of West Adams Street and involved a screwdriver, officials said. Two women and a man were injured in the incident, said Larry Merritt, a Chicago Fire Department spokesman.
A man streamed the incident and its aftermath in four videos that have quickly spread on Facebook. They have been watched more than 377,000 times.
The first video, which has been shared more than 4,200 times on Facebook, shows a bloodied man carrying something — others in the video call it a knife — while threatening people. The man shows his blood-covered chest and arms on Facebook Live and uses gang slogans and signs in the video.
Other people threaten the man with poles and the man says, “I will come back with 20 n—–. You guys better not be here because I’m a start shooting n——.”
Eventually police arrive and the man records officers as they speak to witnesses. People in the video say the man stabbed two or three women.
In another video, the man points his camera at his face, revealing blood dripping from his nose and chin down to his chest.
The fourth video shows the man in what appears to be a hospital, his neck in a brace, bandages in his nose and cuts along his chest.
Two people were hospitalized at Mount Sinai and Stroger hospitals and their injuries did not appear be to life-threatening, Merritt said.
Chicago Police could not immediately answer questions about the incident Friday.
Chicago police said two men were stabbed at North Avenue Beach in the city’s Lincoln Park neighborhood Tuesday evening. Officials said both victims were taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital for treatment. A 25-year-old man was taken in critical condition, and a 35-year-old man was taken in serious condition, a fire department spokesperson said. “You have…
A Wilmette man who was stabbed to death early Tuesday morning was an Uber driver who was dropping off a passenger in Lincolnwood, police officials said in a statement Tuesday afternoon. Grant Nelson, 34, of the 1100 block of Isabella Street in Wilmette, was stabbed shortly after 3 a.m. Tuesday. His vehicle, a gray 2015…