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Jesus Sanchez (law enforcement photo). Jesus Sanchez, 18, of the 2000 block of West Nichols Road, in unincorporated Arlington Heights, was charged with attempted first-degree murder and first degree murder after he attempted to commit a gang-related hit in the block of 400 Pleasant Run Drive, Wheeling, but instead shot and killed the wrong person. [...]

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View Chicagoland and Worldwide Crime Notebook Map in a larger map Cook County jurors convicted Michael Cacini, 36, on Friday of attempted murder of a Chicago police officer after a two-day trial at the Cook County Criminal Division Courthouse, 2650 South California Avenue. Police reported that Cacini became combative on a traffic stop that occurred [...]

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Bartlett police and Bartlett Fire Protection District firefighter/paramedics responded about 3:00 a.m. Sunday to report of a gunshot wound at the Cadillac Ranch, 1175 Lake Street. Emergency responders arrived to find a man in his 20′s with a gunshot wound to the head and another head wound from the fall after being shot. The victim [...]

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Surveillance video from a Nashville, Tennessee market shows a truck smashing through the front door. Second video (below) shows the offender steal a Dodge Durango and crash into a delivery truck after pulling out into the highway. Columbia Police charged Erik Whitaker, 40, charged with two counts of attempted homicide, two counts of aggravated assault, [...]

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Joseph K. Stein (left) and Mitchel ATS Barnes (police photo). Mitchell ATS Barnes, 19, and Joseph K. Stein, 20, have been charged with one count each of attempted first degree murder and home invasion after an attack about 4:00 a.m. Saturday at the Homestead Suite hotel, 51 East State Parkway. Both men are accused of [...]

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Law officers from Elgin’s gang unit and members of the Illinois Department of Corrections Apprehension Unit arrested Francisco Suarez, 22, of West Chicago, Friday morning at the residence of a relative in West Chicago. The West Chicago man was charged with attempted murder Saturday after Elgin police said he struck a Rosemont man about 4:30 [...]

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VIDEO showing damaged battery: A valet at an Atlanta nightclub cheated death when his HTC cell phone, tucked in his breast pocket, stopped a bullet. An Atlanta police officer who was nearby the Halo Lounge, heard multiple gunshots about 3:00 a.m. Thursday. The police officer pursued at least two suspects. The suspects, whose names have [...]

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View Chicagoland and Worldwide Crime Notebook Map in a larger map UPDATE (February 24 2012): Cook County jurors convicted Michael Cacini, 36, on Friday of attempted murder of a Chicago police officer by holding and dragging the police officer while driving his (Cacini’s) vehicle, pushing the police officer away from his vehicle and then running [...]

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William Clark Charged with ‘Attempted Murder’ in West Dundee, Illinois. William Clark, 20, of Winaki Trail, Algonquin was charged with attempted murder after stabbing his ex-girlfriend at a Bath and Body Works store, Spring Hill Mall in West Dundee. The offender walked into his 21-year-old ex-girlfriend’s workplace at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday. He then forced her [...]

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Krzysztof Kaczor, 24, of the 400 block of East Washington St. in Des Plaines was pronounced dead of multiple gunshot wounds at 2:14 a.m. Sunday at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge, after he was shot by a Des Plaines Police officer. Kaczor was shot as he appeared about to strike the police officer [...]

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Police at the crime scene at 3300 North Carriageway in Arlington Heights where Daniel G. Levine stabbed his 86 year-old grandmother. Suspect Caught in the 2800 Block of North Dunton Avenue Arlington Heights police were searching the area of 3300 North Carriageway and Daniels Court on the north side of Arlington Heights after a grandson [...]

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