A body found in a car in a retention pond early Thursday in Kankakee has been identified as a missing northwest suburban woman, and her family is thanking law enforcement for bringing them “closure.” Sheila Khalili, 27, was expected to return to her parents’ home in Schaumburg on Friday, but never arrived, according to Schaumburg…
Bail was set at $4 million Tuesday for a 20-year-old Addison man suspected of Saturday’s “targeted” shooting deaths of two men and the attempted murder of a third. Jorge Vargas, 20, is charged with two counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted murder. Authorities said the two victims — Kevin Bustos, 17, of…
A Park Forest man died early Saturday after he was shot in his car in south suburban University Park late Friday, according to authorities. Rodney D. Reed, 25, was pronounced dead at 1:09 a.m. Saturday at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. An autopsy was scheduled…
A person was found dead, tied up and facedown on a couch in a Cicero home Wednesday, according to police. The dead person’s employer called police to report their employee had not been heard from since Monday. When police entered the home in the 2100 block of 59th Court, they found the person’s body inside.…
A neighbor of the 33-year-old woman found strangled in her Schaumburg apartment on Easter Sunday has been charged in the slaying, officials said. Bulmaro Mejia-Maya, 29, who was arrested Wednesday in Jacksonville, Fla., was charged with first-degree murder, home invasion and aggravated criminal sexual assault in connection with the death of Tiffany Thrasher, police said.…
A 33-year-old woman was found strangled in her Schaumburg apartment this weekend, authorities said Monday. The victim was identified as Tiffany Thrasher and lived in the 2600-block of Clipper Drive, police said. Schaumburg police said they forced their way inside her ground-level apartment, where they found her body. They believe she was murdered between 8…
MINOOKA, Ill. A man has been charged in connection with the fatal shooting of a parolee in southwest suburban Minooka Friday night while he was celebrating his release from prison earlier that day. Nathan A. Hofkamp, 29, was celebrating with family members about 11:25 p.m. when “a disturbance broke out” inside a home in the…
On Friday, Berwyn Police announced they arrested Roger Scoby in the murder of an elderly couple in Berwyn. This was a crime described as especially brutal and senseless. The victims were an older couple, both with disabilities, shot execution style in their house. Police have charged 40-year-old Roger Scoby of Schaumburg with two counts of…
Acting Berwyn Police Chief Michael Cimaglia said officers were called to a home in the 3100 block of S. Oak Park Avenue just before 5:30 a.m. “Ira Moore, 67-years-old, a Vietnam veteran, and his wife, Tommie Moore, 70-years-old, were discovered deceased on the kitchen floor,” Cimaglia said. Investigators first believed the couple died in a…
A Palos Township man was sentenced Thursday to natural life in prison for the brutal slayings of his parents. John Granat Jr., 22, was accused of being the mastermind in the 2011 deaths of John Granat Sr. and his wife, Maria Granat. The couple’s skulls were crushed with aluminum bats, and then the dying mother…
A former northwest suburban man who murdered his grandmother in an effort to speed up his inheritance was sentenced to 45 years in prison Thursday. Rich A. Schmelzer, 44, formerly of East Dundee, was convicted on Dec. 20, 2016, of the murder of his grandmother, 85-year-old Mildred “Dodie” Darrington of East Dundee, according to the…
Police in suburban Chicago have released a chilling 911 call on which a father tells a dispatcher that he had just shot dead his twin daughters, wounded his wife and was about to kill himself. When officers with the St Charles Police Department responded to a luxury condominium complex from which the emergency call came…
A middle-aged man stood silently near a memorial of flowers, candles, Teddy bears and handwritten notes before walking up and dropping to one knee. Wiping tears from his eyes, he briefly put a hand on one of the three wooden crosses that were placed on the ground. A few moments later, he stood up and…
A Man and two teen girls were found shot to death in a St. Charles luxury condominium complex Friday evening, police said. Police were called to the Milestone Row condominium complex in the 400 block of S. First Street at 5:12 p.m. after receiving a 911 call from someone inside the residence and reports of…
Ehab Qasem pleaded guilty to one count of first-degree murder in exchange for a 40-year glimmer of hope that he would one day walk away free from a state prison. The 25-year-old Qasem, shackled in handcuffs and leg irons, stood in a lonely courtroom Wednesday morning and listened to assistant state’s attorney Donna Norton describe…
After making an in-court statement that lasted more than 90 minutes, a man who strangled his new roommate in Naperville in 2014 was sentenced Thursday to 20 years in prison. In his address, Grant Muren, 24, criticized the DuPage County state’s attorneys who prosecuted him, called the man he killed, Charles Clark, a “vicious psychopath”…
A 30-year-old man has been found guilty for the 2013 murder of his mother after shooting her in the back of a vehicle in southwest suburban Burr Ridge. Michael Bassaly, formerly of Downers Grove, was found guilty of first degree murder for the fatal shooting of 61-year-old Yvonne Zaky Bassaly, according to the DuPage County…
A 60-year-old man was charged Saturday in the murder of his wife in south suburban Orland Park, police said. Mary Homolka, 60, was found dead Friday afternoon in the family’s home in the 14000-block of Sheri Lane. She sustained a single gunshot wound to the head, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office. Her…
A retired Chicago Police officer has been charged with killing his wife, also a retired Chicago Police officer, on Friday in northwest suburban Spring Grove. Lorin E. Volberding, 71, was charged with murder in connection with the fatal shooting of his wife and ordered held on $100,000 bail, according to McHenry County sheriff’s office records.…
