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Crimes Notebook

Patrick Ford Sentenced 35 Years After Pleading Guilty to Murder of Dana Mangi

Patrick Ford, 25, of 1043 W. Grace St. [MAP/SAT], was charged with killing Dana Mangi by stabbing and strangulation at his Wrigleyville apartment in August 2007. On Thursday, he was sentenced to 35 years in prison, after pleading guilty but mentally ill to murder charges in the death of Class of 2000 Prospect High School graduate Dana Mangi, 25, of Arlington Heights. […]

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Crimes Notebook

Melissa Bridgewater Shot, Killed Near Spring and Harger Road in Oak Brook

Map looking North on Spring Road toward the crime scene in Oak Brook, Illinois.

Oak Brook police responded about 6:15 a.m. Friday, New Year’s Day to report of shots fired near Spring and Harger Roads in Oak Brook. When police arrived to the area just east of Oak Brook Shopping Center, they found a female in a vehicle with a gunshot wound.

Melissa Bridgewater, 45, was shot in her car. She was leaving the Doubletree Hotel at 1909 Spring Road when she was shot by an unknown offender. The victim’s ex-husband, Jerry L. Hudson, 48, has been declared by police as a person of interest wanted for questioning in the case. […]

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APB: Four Men Wanted in Connection with Fatal Shooting of Convenience Store Clerk in Gary, Indiana

Surveillance video shows four men entering a gas station convenience store with one black male in a red shirt and dark short breaking into the store clerk’s booth at the convenience store and firing a handgun. The video shows a man in red run up a store aisle first and kick in the door to the cash register booth. Within seconds, the store clerk, Gurjeet Singh, was shot in the neck at his work at the Grant Gas and Mini Food Mart. Singh put his hands in the air and did not resist in any way before he was shot and killed. […]