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After an argument over money erupted at a South Side pawnshop, China Mitchell told the staff there that she was afraid of the man she was with, Cook County prosecutors said. She ran into a bathroom as the workers called 911, but, prosecutors allege, Louie Foster followed her into the small room. Police arrived on the scene and knocked on the door. Shortly after, they heard rounds of gunfire. .
“When you think about the trends that we’re seeing right now, and that we have for a number of years, we’re clearly operating in an environment where Jews are being targeted,” said David Goldenberg of the Anti-Defamation League.
Offended when his roomates kicked him out because he was late on rent, a 33-year-old man set three fires at his South Shore building, including one that erupted when he lit a baby stroller ablaze, prosecutors said.