A Ravenswood man accused of trying to kill his ex-wife allegedly donned a “Rastafarian wig” to try to conceal his identity during the attack in East Lake.
A man was charged with attempted murder after hitting a woman in the head and body with a “blunt object” in mid-May in the Lakeview East neighborhood, police said.
A man was charged with attempted murder after hitting a woman in the head and body with a “blunt object” in mid-May in the Lakeview East neighborhood, police said. On May 14, Paul Woebel, 47, beat a 42-year-old woman while she was walking in the 500 block of West Hawthorne Place, police said. Woebel, of the 4900 block of North Wolcott Avenue in Ravenswood, was arrested Monday in the 3400 block .
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A man faces an attempted murder charge after allegedly beating a woman and taking off with her belongings last month in Lake View East.
Paul Woebel, 47, of Ravenswood, struck the woman with a blunt object, possibly a pipe, as she walked her dog May 14 in the 500 block of West Hawthorne Place, Chicago police said.
He hit the 42-year-old woman in the head and body around 8:30 p.m. and then took her belongings and left, police said. The woman was treated at Illinois Masonic Medical Center.
Woebel was arrested Monday about a block from the beating, in the 3400 block of North Lake Shore Drive, police said.