A Chicago man accused of shooting and killing his brother and his brother’s partner in their Gage Park home over the weekend before stabbing a woman at a nearby sports bar was ordered detained Wednesday. Robert Romo, 57, was charged with first-degree murder, attempted murder and aggravated battery in the fatal shooting of Richard M. […]
Kane County State’s Attorney Jamie Mosser told the county board the SAFE-T Act is increasing costs and is also too limited in its list of detainable offenses.
Nineteen months after two women were shot in the bleachers at a White Sox game, there’s little clarity in the case.
Crime reports from south and southwest suburban agencies from police and court reports and news releases.
A 33-year-old man was discovered fatally wounded Wednesday morning outside on the Far South Side in the Roseland neighborhood, Chicago police said. Shortly after 5 a.m., the victim was found unresponsive in the 10100 block of South Prairie Avenue with multiple gunshot wounds to the body. He was pronounced dead at the scene. No one […]
A 57-year-old man was charged Wednesday in connection with the fatal stabbings of two people in recent days in the Gage Park neighborhood, Chicago police said. Robert Romo of the Clearing neighborhood was charged with two counts of first degree murder in the stabbing deaths of a 64-year-old woman and a 63-year-old man on March […]
Human remains were found inside a car pulled Tuesday from the Fox River that belonged to Karen Schepers, an Elgin woman who has been missing for nearly 42 years.
The gunman who killed 23 people in a racist attack at an El Paso Walmart in 2019 in one of the the deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history has been offered a plea deal to avoid the death penalty, a Texas prosecutor said Tuesday.
Michael Lipford’s body was found with both arms and one leg severed and showed apparent attempts at further dismemberment, according to police.
A Will County judge sentenced Richard Proctor, 30, of Steger, to 40 years in prison for fatally stabbing Ryan Connell, 28, in 2020.