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Organized crime – notable homicides involving the Italian-American organized crime syndicate or crime family based in Chicago. These include the 1929 Saint Valentine's Day Massacre and the 1977 murder of Sam Giancana. Lynchings and race riots – homicides associated with lynching and race riots. These include the 1844 Killing of Joseph Smith ...
Injured. 1. Perpetrator. Romeo Alexander Nance. On January 21, 2024, a gunman opened fire on three separate occasions in and around Joliet, Illinois. A total of eight people were killed, and one person was injured. The perpetrator, 23-year-old Romeo Nance, who was related to seven of the victims, fatally shot himself a day later after being ...
On July 6, 2024, Sonya Massey, a 36-year-old black woman, was shot and killed in her home by Sean Grayson, a white deputy of the Sangamon County Sheriff's Office in Woodside Township near Springfield, Illinois, United States. [2][3][4] Massey called 911 about a possible prowler. Grayson and an unidentified deputy responded and found nothing ...
On Aug. 11, three months after a jury found Tim guilty of first-degree murder, a judge sentenced him to life in prison and said: "Mr. Bliefnick, you researched this murder, you planned this murder ...
2024 Rockford stabbings. On March 27, 2024, four people were killed and seven others were injured in a mass stabbing in Rockford, Illinois, with the fatalities entailing two men, a woman, and a 15-year-old girl. A suspect, 22-year-old Christian Ivan Soto, of Rockford, was taken into custody and charged with several counts of first-degree murder ...
Chester Weger. Chester Otto Weger (born March 3, 1939) [1] is an American man who was convicted in 1961 of the murder of one of three women found slain at Starved Rock State Park the previous year. He was held at Pinckneyville Correctional Center and at one time was the longest serving inmate incarcerated by the State of Illinois as well as the ...
The victim was identified as 69-year-old Patrick King from Elburn, Illinois. Chapman said officers worked through the night and identified a murder suspect, 39-year-old Andrew Swetland from Los ...
4 ft 0 in (1.22 m) The murder of Jaclyn Marie Dowaliby is an unsolved child murder which occurred in Midlothian, Illinois, on September 10, 1988, when a seven-year-old girl was abducted from her bedroom and murdered by an unknown individual or individuals. Her strangled body was discovered in a section of wasteland in Blue Island four days later.