A 16-year-old was fatally shot and two 17-year-olds were injured as bullets crashed through the front window of a home where the boys were attending a party early this morning on ChicagoChicago reviews’s West SideWest Side reviews.

About 4:15 a.m., police responded to shots fired in the 4300 block of West Potomac Avenue and found three gunshot victims, said Police News Affairs Officer Laura Kubiak.

The 16-year-old, who has not been identified, was shot in the chest and pronounced on the scene, Kubiak said. One of the other victims was shot in the leg and foot while the other own was shot in a shoulder, Kubiak said.

Officials said there were about a dozen people attending the party when bullets crashed through a front window and hit the three boys.

Police are investigating.

– Deanese Williams-Harris and Carlos Sadovi

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A 39-year-old man was struck and killed by a vehicle this morning on Illinois Route 394,  officials said.

Luis Valdivia-Segoviano, of the 100 block of South Halsted Street in ChicagoChicago reviews Heights, was standing outside his vehicle on IL-394 when he was hit by a vehicle, according to a spokeswoman for the Cook County medical examiner’s office. He was killed near suburban Lynwood, she said.

Illinois State Police were notified about 2:26 a.m., according to a spokesman. Reports said Valdivia-Segoviano was standing outside his vehicle talking to another motorist who stopped in front of him when he was struck.

The man with whom Valdivia-Segoviano was talking was also taken in critical condition to Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital, according to a state police spokeswoman.

The driver of the car that hit the men did not stop but later contacted police, the police said. The driver is being questioned by police this morning.

– Staff report

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A 71-year-old woman was struck and killed this afternoon by a snow plow a short distance from her Rogers Park home, authorities said.

The driver received two citations in connection with the accident.

The accident occurred at about 2:15 p.m. in the 1300 block of West Morse Avenue, ChicagoChicago reviews police said.

The victim was identified as Yuliya Polzikova of the 1200 block of West Morse Avenue, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

According to police, Polzikova was crossing the street on Morse when she was struck by a Chevrolet Silverado with an attached plow backing out from a private parking lot it was clearing.

Polzikova was rushed to St. Francis Hospital in Evanston, where she was pronounced dead a short time later, a medical examiner’s spokesman said.

The driver, George Ivy Jr., 49, of the 1600 block of West Jonquil Terrace, was cited with failure to show due care with a pedestrian in the roadway and backing up without due caution, Sgt. Antoinette Ursitti said.

Authorities didn’t expect any additional charges or citations.

–William Lee

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A 51-year-old man was charged with shooting another man to death in the Woodlawn neighborhood Sunday after the two had an altercation, officials announced this morning.

Elliot G. Mayfield, of the 600 block of South Calumet Avenue, was charged with first-degree murder Monday and was ordered held today by a Cook County criminal court judge on $800,000 bond.

Mayfield is charged with fatally shooting Samuel Fullilove, of the 300 block of East 60th Street, on Sunday.

The shooting occurred at about 9:07 p.m. Sunday on the 6100 block of South King Drive.  Fullilove was pronounced dead at 9:47 p.m., officials said. An autopsy on Monday determined that Fullilove was shot in the chest and ruled his death a homicide.

 Carlos Sadovi

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An Algonquin teenager has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of a family member, authorities said.

Bond was set at $2.5 million today for David W. Szalonek, 16, of the 1400 block of Westbourne Parkway.
Algonquin police would not disclose the identity of the victim, his
specific relationship to the teen, or the cause of his death. They
described the victim only as a man in his early 50s.

Deputy Chief Steve Kuzynowski said police responded to the family home
around 7:45 p.m. Monday after receiving a report of a suspicious
incident and found the body of the man inside.

The Kane County state’s attorney’s office confirmed Szalonek’s identity and said he had been charged as an adult.

He was taken to the juvenile jail facility in St. Charles after
appearing in Elgin branch court. Szalonek is next due back in court
Feb. 18.

Allison Strupeck, spokeswoman for Dundee School District 300, said Szalonek is a freshman at Jacobs High School in Algonquin, and that he has attended district schools since 7th grade.

Police notified school officials late Monday, Strupeck said, and district officials briefed teachers and staff at a meeting before Tuesday classes. School officials were planning to send a mass-distribution telephone message to parents this afternoon, alerting them to the situation and the availability of counseling.

The message will also emphasize that Szalonek was in custody and the matter was not school-related, Strupeck said.

–Clifford Ward

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Authorities today identified a Stickney man as the person found strangled and beaten in the city’s Little Village neighborhood over the weekend.

An autopsy performed this morning determined that Luis Rodriguez, 25, died of strangulation and blunt head trauma in an assault and the death was classified a homicide, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Rodriguez’s body was discovered in an alley at about 6:45 a.m. Sunday in the 3000 block of South Christiana Avenue, ChicagoChicago reviews police said. He suffered from obvious trauma to his head and upper body, police said. Rodriguez, of the 4000 block of Oak Park Avenue in Stickney, was pronounced dead at 9:15 a.m., a medical examiner’s spokesman said.

Police today had no new details on the case, adding that no arrests had been made.

–William Lee

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UPDATE: Police said tonight that Patrycia Bochmulski returned home. No further details were released.

ChicagoChicago reviews police said tonight they are looking for a 16-year-old girl last seen a week ago at Prosser High School in the city’s Belmont Cragin neighborhood.

Patrycia Bochmulski, of the 5400 block of West Addison Street, was spotted at Prosser at noon on Thursday, police said in a missing persons alert.

Patrycia is described in the alert as Caucasian, 5-foot-4, 130 pounds, with a fair complexion, green eyes and brown hair.

She was wearing a black jacket, black T-shirt and blue jeans, police said.

Anyone with information about Patrycia’s whereabouts should call the Grand Central Area’s Special Victims Unit at 312-746-8365.

–Jeff Finkelman

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A 42-year-old Hanover Park man was sentenced in Cook County Circuit Court today to 20 years in prison for his role in a series of home invasions that began nearly two years ago in the northwest suburbs.

Daniel D. Suddoth, of the 2200 block of Walnut Avenue, pleaded guilty in Rolling Meadows branch court to home invasions in Elk Grove Village, Schaumburg and Streamwood. Suddoth was arrested in May 2008 following a home invasion in the 1500 block of Stafford Circle in Elk Grove Village in which the 51-year-old resident was beaten by four men, authorities said.

Police learned the Suddoth and the other three men were involved in home invasions in the 1900 block of Keystone Place in Schaumburg and in the 700 block of Russet Lane in Streamwood. In each case, residents were beaten and cash and electronic items were stolen, Assistant State’s Attorney Mike Gerber said.

During the hearing, Assistant Public Defender Scott Slonim told Judge Kay Hanlon that Suddoth is a heroin addict who has an IQ of 64. Suddoth’s three accomplices all pleaded guilty last year and received prison sentences.

–George Houde

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A 33-year-old man shot Sunday night in ChicagoChicago reviews’s Woodlawn neighborhood has died, officials said.

Samuel Fullilove, of the 300 block of East 60th Street, was pronounced dead at 9:47 p.m. Sunday at Stroger Hospital, according to a spokesman for the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

At about 9:07 p.m., Fullilove was shot in the chest by an unknown person on the 6100 block of South King Drive, said Police News Affairs Officer Hector Alfaro. The assailant fled the scene, he said.

Police are investigating.

–Deanese Williams-Harris

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A man was found fatally beaten Sunday morning in an alley in the city’s Little Village neighborhood.

The unidentified victim was discovered at about 6:45 a.m. Sunday in the 3000 block of South Christiana Avenue, ChicagoChicago reviews police said.

The victim, described as a man between 20 and 30 years old, appeared to have suffered trauma to his head and upper body, police said in a news release.

No arrests had been made, police said.

An autopsy is scheduled for Monday morning, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

–Staff report

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A man, described as being in his 50s, was found stabbed multiple times at his home in ChicagoChicago reviews’s AustinAustin reviews neighborhood.

About 9:45 p.m., Wayne Johnson, of the 5000 block of West Fulton Street, was discovered unresponsive in his home, according to a spokesman at the Cook County medical examiner’s office. A roommate alerted police after finding Johnson, who was stabbed several times.   

Police are investigating.

– Deanese Williams-Harris

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A man, described as in his 50’s, was found stabbed multiple times at a residence in ChicagoChicago reviews’s AustinAustin reviews neighborhood. 

At about 9:45 p.m., officers were called to the scene in the 5000 block of West Fulton Street  and found the unresponsive man with several wounds.  

Police are investigating.

–Deanese Williams-Harris

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DNA evidence helped authorities charge a South SideSouth Side reviews man in connection with an unsolved 25-year-old homicide.

Authorities identified the victim as Sheila Johnson, 24, who was found stabbed to death in her apartment on March 17, 1984, in the 5800 block of North Winthrop Avenue on ChicagoChicago reviews’s North Side. 

Authorities could not discuss the circumstances that led to the stabbing. But first-degree murder charges were lodged against 44-year-old Melvin Green of the 1500 block of West 87th Street, police said.

The Chicago Police Department’s cold case squad revisited the case in 2008 and were able to obtain evidence, which was submitted for DNA analysis. A DNA match led police to Green, who was subsequently taken into custody, police said.

Court information for Green was unavailable.

–Staff report

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Two men were shot at a building within the Cabrini-Green public housing complex on the Near North Side early this morning, a ChicagoChicago reviews police spokesman said.

The victims were taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, said Officer Veejay Zala, a police spokesman. One of the victims was shot in the abdomen, while the other was shot in the leg.

Their conditions were unavailable this afternoon.

The shooting happened at 2:15 a.m. in the 1200 block of North Burling Street.

Zala said no one was in custody for the shooting. He could not release further details this afternoon.

–Staff report

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Two “people of interest” were taken into custody out of state today for questioning in the slaying of a 70-year-old man from unincorporated Lake County near Antioch, Lake County Sheriff Mark Curran said.

An autopsy this evening reveled that David Queen, of the 40200 block of Deep Lake Round, died of multiple stab wounds to the upper back and chest, Lake County Coroner Richard Keller said.

Lake County Sheriff’s police were called to the scene at about 1:30 p.m. by a tenant of the home who saw the body through a window when he could not get in, Curran said.

The home is not a part of the Dream Catcher Stables, located in the 40100 block of North Deep Lake Road, which was also cordoned off by police for investigative purposes, Lake County Undersheriff Charles Fagan said.

– Ruth Fuller

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Bond for a 57-year-old Arlington Heights man accused of having child pornography on his computer was set at $100,000 in Cook County Circuit Court Thursday.

Larry Moser, of the 600 block of west Burning Tree Lane, was charged in Rolling Meadows branch court with aggravated child pornography.

Moser identified himself to authorities as an insurance industry executive, but he is also an Illinois High School Association referee, officials from the Cook County sheriff’s office said.

Assistant State’s Attorney Bill Cotter said Moser was arrested Wednesday following a joint, two-month investigation by the Cook County sheriff and the FBI.  Police seized Moser’s computers in December and found 100 pictures of children under 13 posed in sexual acts, including some who were infants, Cotter said.

When he turned himself in Wednesday, he told investigators he wants to be a “crusader against child pornography,” the sheriff’s office said.

“Proper protocol has been followed in this situation,” IHSA Executive Director Marty Hickman said in a prepared statement. “The individual who was suspended today had not been charged with any crimes until [today] and was not a registered sex offender, nor did he have any previous record. The IHSA has never received any complaints concerning his conduct while acting as an IHSA official.”

Moser’s next court date is March 25.

– George Houde

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Counterfeit designer-label items were seized and four people arrested when authorities served a search warrant on the North Side, ChicagoChicago reviews police said today.

The search Wednesday afternoon at the business in the 4500 block of North Clark Street turned up “a large quantity” of reproduction consumer goods such as Coach handbags and Chanel sunglasses, police said.

Officers from a Town Hall District tactical team also found various mock designer labels and tools used for attaching the labels to merchandise.

Police said four people were arrested.

Chae W. Kim, 67, and Sun Kim, 62, both of Glenview, were charged with one felony count each of Unauthorized Use of Trademarks — More Than 500 Items. The other two people, whose names were not released, were charged with one misdemeanor each of Unauthorized Use of Trademark, police said.

The Kims had been scheduled for bond hearings today but court information was not available.

–Staff report

Some of the items in a North Side business where police seized counterfeit trademark goods. (Police handout) 

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ChicagoChicago reviews police shot a dog this evening while executing some kind of warrant in the Logan Square neighborhood on the Northwest Side.

Officials could not say whether the dog was killed or what caused police to shoot it.

The shooting happened in the 2200 block of North Springfield Avenue as police were executing either a search warrant or arrest warrant at that location, officials said.

Members of the Independent Police Review Authority, which probes shootings involving Chicago police officers, were investigating the matter.

–Staff report

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ChicagoChicago reviews police responded early this morning to a call of an armed man who reportedly barricaded himself in a residence in the South Shore neighborhood.

Officers received the initial call at 1:39 a.m. and responded to the 7300 block of South Oglesby Avenue, said Chicago Police Officer Ron Gaines, citing preliminary reports from the scene.

The man is believed to be in the home alone with a weapon. He is unwilling to come out, Gaines said. A witness reported that police in SWAT-style uniforms were on the scene.

Check back for additional details.

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A Hazel Crest man riding a bicycle in Ford Heights Tuesday night died after he was struck by a motor vehicle, authorities said.

Ronald Sims, 61, was pronounced dead just before 2 a.m. at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. Sims’ home was in the 16700 block of Western Avenue in Hazel Crest, about seven miles from the scene.

A Ford Heights police dispatcher said officers were called to 11th Street and Cottage Grove Avenue at 10:09 p.m. She confirmed that Sims had been struck by an auto while biking, but did not have additional details.

Cook County sheriff’s police are investigating the incident, the dispatcher said.

– Staff report

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A man and woman were fatally shot tonight as they sat inside of a parked vehicle in the city’s Gresham neighborhood.

The victims were sitting in the parked vehicle in the 8500 block of South Morgan Street at about 7:10 p.m. when the offender pulled along side them and opened fire, ChicagoChicago reviews police said.

Both victims were rushed to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where they were each pronounced dead. One of the victims was identified as Maryrosa Green, 44, of the 1200 block of West 72nd Street, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. The second victim, described only as a man in his 20s, remained unidentified late Tuesday.

The gunman fled in an unknown direction. Police hadn’t made any arrests in the double slaying. Investigators said they weren’t sure what the relationship was between the victims or the possible motive.

This shooting was the second and third fatalities to occur in the Gresham neighborhood Tuesday.

–Staff report

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Two masked men tied up a couple and their 5-year-old child and robbed their house Monday evening in Carpentersville.

Authorities said two men wearing ski masks entered the home on the 4000 block of Stratford Lane through an open garage door about 9:15 p.m., just after the family had arrived home. After tying up the victims, the men, one of whom had a handgun, removed several items from the house and drove away in a red, two-door sedan. No more detailed information was available regarding the items that were stolen.

Cmdr. Tim Bosshart said police are investigating and are unaware of any similar incidents in the area.

It’s not clear how family members escaped their bonds and contacted police.

– Andrea L. Brown

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A 17-year-old boy was shot and killed this afternoon in the city’s West Humboldt Park neighborhood, ChicagoChicago reviews police said.

Police believe the teen’s killers chased him down before shooting him, authorities said.

Killed was Ramone Washington, of the 700 block of South Karlov Avenue, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

A neighbor called police to report screaming followed by shooting near the 1100 block of North Keystone Avenue just after 1:40 p.m., police said.

Authorities found the Washington’s body in the 1100 block of North Karlov Avenue. He suffered gunshot wounds to his left and right hips, as well as underneath his right arm, with the bullet penetrating his heart, police spokeswoman Gabrielle Lesniak said.

Washington was rushed to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead, a medical examiner’s spokesman said. An autopsy is scheduled for Tuesday.

Descriptions of the two gunmen weren’t available.

–William Lee

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A 17-year-old boy was shot and killed this afternoon in the city’s West Humboldt Park neighborhood, ChicagoChicago reviews police said.

Police believe the teen’s killers chased him down before shooting him, authorities said.

Killed was Ramone Washington, of the 700 block of South Karlov Avenue, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

A neighbor called police to report screaming followed by shooting near the 1100 block of North Keystone Avenue just after 1:40 p.m., police said.

Authorities found the Washington’s body in the 1100 block of North Karlov Avenue. He suffered gunshot wounds to his left and right hips, as well as underneath his right arm, with the bullet penetrating his heart, police spokeswoman Gabrielle Lesniak said.

Washington was rushed to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead, a medical examiner’s spokesman said. An autopsy is scheduled for Tuesday.

Descriptions of the two gunmen weren’t available.

–William Lee

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A woman whose husband was charged earlier this month in connection with her beating died this morning, officials said.

Sandra Viramontes, 30, of the 4500 block of South Hermitage Avenue, was pronounced dead at 3:43 a.m. at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, according to a spokesman for the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

An autopsy scheduled for later today will determine the manner and cause of her death, the spokesman said.

Viramontes was hospitalized after a domestic fight with her husband on Jan. 10 in the 5700 block of South Rutherford Avenue said ChicagoChicago reviews Police News Affairs Officer Laura Kubiak. Viramontes suffered severe trauma to her face, head and body, officials said.

Her husband, Luis Viramontes, 31, of the Rutherford address, turned himself over to police on Jan. 13, Kubiak said.

He was charged with one count of aggravated domestic battery and one count of attempted murder, according to court records.

He appeared in bond court later that day and was denied bond, according to court records. A request to reduce bond was granted on Jan. 20, in the amount of $500,000. Court records indicate he posted bond.

– Deanese Williams-Harris and Carlos Sadovi

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A woman was shot this morning on the South SideSouth Side reviews in the ChicagoChicago reviews Lawn neighborhood.

Police responding to shots fired in the 6200 block of South Campbell Avenue, found a woman shot in the arm, said Police News Affairs Officer Hector Alfaro.

The age and condition of the woman was not immediately available, Alfaro said.

Police are investigating.

–Deanese Williams-Harris

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