Cook County Chief Judge Tim Evans is the key architect of the county’s infamous “bail reform” that has led to the parade of pretrial defendants released from detention but then charged with new crimes
After Eugene Broach tripped on a bush in a front yard on April 5, two brothers chased him before standing over him and shooting him multiple times, prosecutors said.
Too Young to Die: The Senseless Murder of a Chicago Seven Year Old | Opinion Lee Habeeb
, Newsweek Columnist, Vice President of Content at Salem Media Group and host of Our American Stories On 4/29/21 at 5:30 AM EDT
Her name was Jaslyn Adams. She was a beautiful young African-American girl, all of seven years old. Late in the afternoon of April 18, she was with her father Jontae at a McDonald s drive-thru in the West Side of Chicago, looking forward to sharing a Happy Meal. But this daddy-daughter trip to McDonald s didn t have a happy ending.
As the first grader and her father pulled up in their Infiniti sedan to the menu board, a silver Audi pulled up behind them. Two African-American men stepped out of the vehicle. They pulled out weapons, and began to fire at the back of Jaslyn and her father s car. A total of 45 shots were fired. Six struck the innocent seven-year-old, who was rushed to nearby Stroger Hospital by a responding police officer. She was pro
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Bail was denied Sunday for a convicted felon who was on house arrest when he and his brother allegedly shot and killed another man earlier this month in the West Pullman neighborhood on the Far South Side.
Semaj Dixon, 28, was charged with first-degree murder in the April 5 slaying of 21-year-old Eugene Broach, who prosecutors said was shot 11 times during Dixon’s initial court hearing. Dixon’s brother remains at large.
Prosecutors alleged that Dixon and his brother were both armed with handguns when they chased Broach through the 12000 block of South Lowe, where Dixon lives. When Broach fell, prosecutors said the brothers stood over him and fired repeatedly as he lay in a “fetal position.”