Monday, May 14, 2012
What was not reported
Motorcyclist Crash
A motorcyclist was killed and two other people were injured today in an
early-morning crash involving two motorcycles and a car, authorities
said.
The collision happened near the intersection of Lawrence and Damen avenues in the Ravenswood neighborhood at about 1:30 a.m., police said.
A witness said it appeared that the motorcyclists struck the vehicle as it
was making a left turn at the intersection.
Chicago police confirmed the collision, but had no details.
Three people were taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center where one of the motorcyclists was pronounced dead, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office. The male victim's identity wasn't immediately released.
The collision happened near the intersection of Lawrence and Damen avenues in the Ravenswood neighborhood at about 1:30 a.m., police said.
Chicago police confirmed the collision, but had no details.
Three people were taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center where one of the motorcyclists was pronounced dead, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office. The male victim's identity wasn't immediately released.
Chicago police officer honored at White House
A Chicago police sergeant was honored at the White
House on Saturday evening for successfully capturing two suspects in an
armed robbery in the Hermosa
neighborhood late last year.
The capture was a made-for-TV incident that also included freeing six victims — three of them children — who had been bound with duct tape inside the store.
Sgt. Don Jerome, who works in the Grand Central
District, received a TOP COPS award from the National Association of Police
Organizations and was honored by both President Barack
Obama and Vice President Joe Biden
during a ceremony in the White House's Rose Garden.
The capture of the suspects "seemed like it was in slow motion," said Jerome, shortly after returning from Washington on Sunday night. "It was scary, but I knew what I was doing."
On Nov. 19, Jerome, a 17-year veteran of the Chicago
Police Department, responded to a call of an armed robbery in progress in
the 4100 block of West North Avenue. After he arrived, Jerome was met by a
panicked woman who said that her store was being robbed, according to
information provided by the National Association of Police Organizations and
Chicago police.
When he entered the store, Jerome said he saw a man in a mask clearing merchandise from a store display.
"I just yelled, 'Police!' and he took off running," Jerome said. "I went on autopilot."
With his gun and flashlight drawn, Jerome followed the man as he fled to the back of the store. After kicking his way through one door, Jerome said he discovered the six victims bound with duct tape and gagged in a darkened bathroom.
He continued his pursuit and came upon a second man. He tried to arrest the men, but the two attacked Jerome, kicking and hitting him. While he was struggling with one of the men, the second reached into a bag.
Jerome remembers the sound of the gun hitting the floor.
"I tackled him, and the fight was on," said Jerome, describing the assailant as a tall man weighing 250 pounds. "We were bouncing off the walls, and that's when I rammed through the front plate-glass window."
They both crashed through the glass storefront and onto the sidewalk. The sergeant then was able to subdue the man with the help of a bystander while other officers who had responded to the robbery call helped arrest the other suspect.
Jerome was among 34 police officers from 10 states honored by the Washington-based National Association of Police Organizations.
Obama said the winners, whose awards were presented by TV actors who have played law enforcement characters, were "representative of the sacrifices and that quiet courage that exists among law enforcement officers all across the country."
"I hope that we also pledge to learn something from the example that they set. Because while most of us will never be asked to run straight into a hail of bullets or chase down an armed suspect on foot, we also have responsibilities to meet," Obama said.
Jerome's heroics helped clear a pattern of more than a half-dozen armed robberies, according to the national police group. Jerome said the two men have been charged with armed robbery in that incident, as well as in connection with an armed robbery crew that police were pursuing at the time.
"Sgt. Jerome has really amazed me," said his commander, Hector Rodriguez of the 25th District. "Every time there has been a hot call, an emergency situation ... he pretty much has been there before anybody else."
Jerome said he did what most of his fellow officers would have done if faced with the same situation.
"I was at the right place at the right time, and I was glad to be able to help," Jerome said. "That's what Chicago police officers do. I was honored and humbled by being in the company of these TOP COPS."
Jerome, who grew up in the western suburbs, was especially pleased to have his mother with him.
"It wasMother's Day(weekend)," he said. "President Obama hugged and kissed my mom and talked to her for a minute. She was ecstatic."
Saturday, May 12, 2012
NY own wildebeast tears up St. Mary's Cemetary
No matter how hard Cathleen Smith tries to stop crying, the tears just can't seem to stop flowing ever since her parents gravestone was vandalized.
This grave is just one of several that were vandalized at St. Mary's Cemetery in Staten Island. Someone drew a gun on this monument and other offensive text on another. "Satan is my god" was written on a nearby mausoleum. Vandals also wrote graffiti on others.
Aaron Smith now tries to comfort his mother. With Mother's Day just around the corner, the vandalism is hitting his family especially hard.
Because of all the beer bottles now littering the cemetery, many suspect teenagers are behind this.
Cathleen said that while this may all be just a bad prank, her pain is all too real.
The cemetery said it is going to clean up all the graffiti.
A police report was filed with the 122 Precinct.
Former LAPD Detective is a descrase to the badge
LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- It was an emotional day in court, as a judge sentenced a former LAPD detective in the killing of her ex-lover's wife. Still, the victim's family says their wounds will never heal.
Stephanie Lazarus, 52, waved to her family and smiled broadly as she entered the courtroom on Friday. She was similarly upbeat as she left the courtroom, even after hearing tearful testimony about the woman she shot and killed.
Lazarus was sentenced to 27 years to life in state prison for one count of willful deliberate first-degree murder, with a special circumstance allegation. Given good behavior and time served, Lazarus was given 1,608 days credit.
She faced forward throughout her sentencing. Family members of her victim, Sherri Rasmussen, testified in tears about their loss. Not once did Lazarus glance their way, even when testimony came from Rasmussen's widowed husband - the man prosecutors say Lazarus wanted so badly that she killed Rasmussen out of jealousy.
Lazarus was found guilty in March of killing the 29-year-old nursing supervisor in 1986 in the Van Nuys townhouse she shared with her husband of three months, John Ruetten.
"The fact that Sherri's death happened because she met and married me brings me to my knees. I do not know, and fear I will never know, how to cope with this appalling fact," Ruetten said.
It took LAPD over two decades to unravel the case. Investigators initially thought burglars shot Rasmussen, and dismissed Lazarus as a suspect despite urgings from Rasmussen's family that Lazarus had a motive.
The Rasmussens have filed a civil suit against the city and LAPD.
"LAPD should want to know why it took so long, and there should be accountability for that passage of time," said John Taylor, attorney for the Rasmussens.
DNA technology, which was developed years after the crime, is what ultimately linked Lazarus to the murder. Lazarus' saliva was found in a bite wound.
"Sherri's efforts to survive, she captured the scientific evidence needed to identify her murderer. It is fitting that science is the key in this prosecution," said Rasmussen's sister, Connie.
Lazarus' family rejects the findings, saying the court was biased and Lazarus was wrongly accused. During the trial, Lazarus' attorney argued the DNA evidence from the bite mark was corrupted and not reliable evidence.
According to sentencing guidelines, Lazarus will have to complete at least 50 percent of her term before she can be eligible for parole. Given the circumstances of the case, L.A. District Attorney Steve Cooley said Lazarus will likely spend the rest of her life behind bars.
Shootings are going on all over the city and the State is not going for Domestic Terrorist charges when is she going to do her fucking job
I am tired of these shootings either the state does on of two thing charge these little fucking bastards as domestic terrorists or give the lawabiding people a chance to deffend them selves.
Two men were killed and 18 other people wounded in separate attacks across
the city Friday night and Saturday morning, police said.A 24-year-old man was shot dead in the Little Village neighborhood about 8:50 p.m., police said. He was shot in the head and chest after a male exited a light-colored pickup truck on the 2700 block of South Homan Avenue and opened fire, police said. The shooting appears gang related but police didn’t say what gave them that impression.
One man died and three others were wounded by gunfire on the 7900 block of South Paulina Street about 10:50 p.m. in the Gresham neighborhood, police said. A man in his 20s was shot in the body and died at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, police said. A 21-year-old man was shot in the abdomen and is in serious condition at John H. Stroger Jr., Hospital of Cook County. A 21-year-old man was shot in the right arm and a 32-year-old woman was shot in the ankle - they are both in stable condition at Holy Cross Hospital, police said. Three men or boys emerged from a light-colored sedan and started shooting at the group, police said, though it's unclear why. The three men in the group all affiliate with a local gang, police said, but it's unclear if that's why they were targeted. Police are not sure if the woman affiliates with a gang.
A man was shot in the West Garfield Park neighborhood about 1:30 a.m. while he was walking down the street, police said. The 30-year-old was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in stable condition, police said.
A 26-year-old man was shot in the leg about 1 a.m. while walking on the 3600 block of West Chicago Avenue in the Humboldt Park neighborhood, police said. A friend drove him to Norwegian American Hospital, where he's in stable condition, police said.
Three men were shot on the 6800 block of South Claremont Avenue in the West Englewood neighborhood about 12:30 a.m., police said. One may have turned up at Holy Cross Hospital but it's not clear how. A 22-year-old man was shot in the right side of his abdomen, a 21-year-old man was shot in the left leg, and an 18-year-old man was shot in his right buttocks. The three were standing on a sidewalk when someone shot at them from a nearby gangway. Police said the shooting may be gang related.
A man, 21, was shot on the 3300 block of West Washington Boulevard in the East Garfield Park neighborhood about 12:25 a.m., police said. He was walking down the street when someone shot him in the knee. One of his friends dropped him off at Rush University Medical Center but he was transferred to Stroger Hospital, police said.
A 19-year-old man was shot in the leg near the corner of LeMoyne Street and Maplewood Avenue about 12:20 a.m. in the Humboldt Park neighborhood, police said. Someone shot at the man from inside a nearby vehicle, and he was hit in the leg. He was taken to St. Elizabeth Hospital in stable condition, police said. The shooting may be gang related.
About 12:10 a.m., a 22-year-old man suffered a graze wound to his right thigh and a 21-year-old man was shot in the right calf, police said. The two were on the 8200 block of South Richmond Avenue when they were shot, and ended up at Little Company of Mary Hospital. It's not clear how they got there. The two said they were shot on Richmond but police weren't able to find a crime scene and didn't get any reports of gunfire from residents in the area.
A man was shot on the 3400 block of West 83rd Street about midnight, police said. His age wasn't available but he was taken in critical condition to Advocate Christ Medical Center, police said. He was in surgery as of about 2 a.m.
An 18-year-old woman was shot on the 6400 block of South Talman Avenue about 11:30 p.m. in the Marquette Park neighborhood, police said. She was walking down the street when someone in a passing light-colored sedan opened fire, hitting her in the thigh, police said. She's in stable condition at Holy Cross Hospital, police said.
A 16-year-old boy walking with friends was shot on the 7900 block of South Avalon Avenue about 10:35 p.m., police said. He was shot in the arm and is in good condition at Jackson Park Hospital. His shooter approached on foot and opened fire, police said.
About 9 p.m., two people standing in a strip mall in the 5000 block of South Cottage Grove Avenue were shot. A 47-year-old woman was grazed on the shin and treated by Chicago paramedics at the scene. A 15-year-old boy was shot in the left bicep and suffered a graze wound on his left forearm, police said. He was taken to Comer Children’s Hospital at the University of Chicago in good condition, police said.
Friday afternoon, a 26-year-old man was shot in the abdomen on the 4100 block of West Wilcox Avenue after talking to another man's girlfriend, police said
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