(NewsCore) – An Illinois couple has been charged with two counts of misdemeanor child endangerment after allegedly leaving their children home alone while they spent a weekend in Las Vegas, ABC News reported Wednesday.
Antowain Johnson, 36, and Shanpreta Howard, 34, are accused of leaving their 12-year-old son and nine-year-old daughter alone and unsupervised in the family’s uptown Chicago home from Feb. 22 to Feb. 24.
The couple did not make a secret of their plans to hit Sin City, located some 2,000 miles from their hometown.
“I am really excited about this trip……ready to go n enjoy myself,” Howard posted on her Facebook account, according to ABC News.
“Hangover Part 3,” Johnson replied to the post.
After his parents left, the 12-year-old child told a teacher that he and his sister were home alone, prompting the teacher to notify police, ABC News reported. Authorities then located the children’s aunt, who cared for the kids until their parents came home.
Two students were stabbed and seriously wounded inside or in front of a South Deering neighborhood school this morning, and another student has been arrested in the attack, authorities said.
The stabbing occurred around 7:30 a.m. in the 10200 block of South Crandon Avenue, authorities said. Both injured students were taken in serious-to-critical condition to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, according to the Chicago Fire Department.
Foxy Brown’s brother was sentenced Wednesday to 2½ to five years in prison for using forged credit cards to go on a luxury shopping spree and club jaunt in New York City.
Gavin Marchand, 36, pleaded guilty last month to identity theft, reports the AP.
Authorities say he racked up an $8,000 tab on phony credit cards at an Hermes boutique in Manhattan in August 2010. Prosecutors say the cards were fake, but they had legitimate account numbers that belonged to other people.
Marchand’s guilty plea also resolved charges that he used bogus cards to spend thousands of dollars at a Manhattan nightclub.
Authorities said the suspect then tried to get into the 2010 Chevrolet SUV until he was ordered to the ground at gunpoint and Merrillville police took him into custody.
Once in custody, the man gave authorities different names and addresses, but told Lake County Jail officials that he was “Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs.”
Authorities were first called to the scene after a white older model Toyota was abandoned in the middle southbound lane of I-65 just south of 61st Avenue. Merrillville police, who responded to the scene, stopped just ahead of the man, leading a motorist to swerve to avoid the stopped police car.
A 1-year-old girl is fighting for her life after being shot in the head this morning on a street in the South Chicago neighborhood, police said.
The incident happened about 8:11 a.m. at 84th Street and Muskegon Avenue, where the child and her 15-year-old aunt were walking a dog, police said. The aunt heard shots and fell on the child. Earlier police reports had said the child was with her mother.
A man was bicycling in the area near the woman and her child when two male teens began shooting at the bicyclist, who managed to get away, police said.
One person was being questioned, authorities said.
The child was hit by one of the bullets and was taken by family first to Advocate Trinity Hospital before being transferred to Children’s Memorial Hospital where she underwent surgery. The aunt was not injured, police said.
