2 additional victims and a slew of new allegations for rape suspect

New sexual assault and robbery charges stemming from two additional incidents have been filed against a 30-year-old man already in jail in similar attacks late last month near Midway Airport and on the Northwest Side.
James Whiteside, of the 600 block of West Deming Street on the North Side, was charged with aggravated criminal sexual assault with a weapon, armed robbery, aggravated vehicular hijacking, vehicular invasion, attempted aggravated criminal sexual assault with a weapon, aggravated battery of a child under the age of 13, and armed robbery.
Whiteside is scheduled to appear in court on Saturday.
The new charges involve attacks that happened the day before and the day after the pair of Dec. 27 attacks in which he’s already being held without bail -- which occurred near the Orange Line at Midway Airport and in the Montclare neighborhood on the Northwest Side.
Whiteside was identified as the person who, while armed with a knife, sexually assaulted a woman in the 7000 block of North Clark Street on Dec. 26, 2013, before taking her money and fleeing in her vehicle. Two days later, he was also identified as the offender who entered the vehicle of a 29 year old woman in the 1200 block of North Milwaukee Avenue, and demanded her money and car keys while holding a knife. The woman’s child was also in the car during this incident Whiteside placed a knife to her neck while she was holding her 3-year-old daughter. He demanded money and the keys to her car. He then grabbed the victim by the neck and snatched her cell phone, which he broke into pieces after it rang.
When Whiteside saw the woman’s husband walking up, he fled through a parking lot.
On Dec. 30, Whiteside was held without bail in connection with the two Dec. 27 attacks. 
The first of those happened in the Montclare neighborhood about 2:30 a.m. on Dec. 27. Whiteside attacked a woman trying to get into her car after leaving a White Castle restaurant near Belmont and Harlem avenues, according to police. The attacker pushed his victim into her car as she opened the driver-side door and, holding a pair of 3-inch scissors and covering her mouth, told her not to scream.
The woman told police she noticed the man as she walked into the White Castle but didn’t pay much attention to him because she thought he was homeless, according to the report.
The man threatened to kill her, then drove her to a nearby side street and raped her. The man then kept her in the car, drove until the car broke down on Diversey Avenue and threw her car keys away.
He took the woman's phone and debit card and walked her to a bank to try to  withdraw money. The two walked to a nearby gas station and the attacker used $50 he stole from the woman to pay a stranger for a ride to his aunt house in the West Humboldt Park neighborhood, according to the report. They stopped at a McDonald's along the way.
The attacker gave some of the woman's money to people at his aunt's house, according to the arrest report. He then called a cab, took two children and the victim with him to a McDonald's and then to Harlem and Belmont avenues where he dropped her off.  He told her not to say anything to anyone and then left.
The woman went to a building a few blocks away and called 911. She told police the man said his name was "James" but that "she should call him Mr. White or (Sergeant) Nelson" .
The second attack happened about 4:15 p.m. that same day in a secured parking lot off the Orange Line at Midway Airport. Chicago police warned people in the area to be vigilant after the attack.
Police said the attacker pushed a 69-year-old woman into her car as she opened her door and demanded money from her before he raped her, according to a police report. He tried to leave the lot by driving the woman's car but couldn't find a parking card, so he told the woman to be quiet and duck while he used her money to fill out a parking slip and pay the attendant, according to the police report.
The woman feared for her life because her attacker drove her to the West Side and repeatedly threatened her, according to the police report.
While driving around the West Side, her attacker "purchased narcotics" twice and picked up a woman he knew, drove to a liquor store and used the 69-year-old's ATM card to get $200, according to the report. He dropped the woman off at a bus stop and she told the attacker to be careful, according to the report. He then left the victim and her car in the West Garfield Park neighborhood at Madison Street and Pulaski Road.
The victim called 911 but left the area to report the crime from closer to home, according to the report.
After the 911 call, two more withdrawals were made from the woman's bank account, for a total of $300, according to the police report.
Whiteside "implicated himself" in the attacks in conversations with other people and gave details consistent with the victim's account, according to his arrest report in Dec. 27 attacks. He told residents he "robbed and raped a woman the night before," according to the report.
Detectives were in the West Humboldt Park neighborhood when Whiteside showed up to a building where detectives were investigating and tried to run when he learned detectives were there, according to the report.
They chased him into a basement stairwell in the 4100 block of West Crystal Street and he was arrested there

Man killed his girlfriend's marijuana dealer

A West Side man got so angry when his girlfriend visited another man to buy marijuna that the first man arranged a marijuana buy himself and then shot to death the second man.
Mario Ortega, 19, was ordered held without bail in a hearing today before Criminal Court Judge Adam Bourgeois, Jr. on a first-degree murder charge in the Sept. 20, 2012 slaying of Efrain Cruz, 25, in the gangway of his Humboldt Park home in the 3200 block of West LeMoyne Street.
At the time of his murder arrest Wednesday, Ortega, of the 4600 block of West Ohio Street, already was in jail after being arrested about 3:30 p.m. Dec. 12 on a heroin charge in the 1100 block of North Springfield Avenue. He pleaded guilty in November to a drunken-driving charge, and is on probation in that case.
The chain of events that led to Cruz’s killing started when Ortega’s girlfriend bought marijuana from Cruz at Cruz’s home. When Ortega heard his girlfriend had been to see Cruz, he became angry, confronted his girlfriend in front of other people, threatening to “take care” of Cruz, and then got into a red car and left.
Ortega went to Cruz’s home, where he found Cruz’s girlfriend but not Cruz. Ortega, who was wearing a grey hooded sweatshirt, told Cruz’s girlfriend he wanted to buy marijuana from Cruz, then left in a red car.
When Ortega returned home, Cruz went to Ortega’s home again, and Cruz, in front of his girlfriend, gave Ortega his phone number, after which Ortega left again in the red car.
Ortega called Cruz about 11:35 p.m., and Cruz left the house, apparently to sell Ortega marijuana. Cruz’s girlfriend was with him when he got the call, and she heard gunshots soon after Cruz left the house. She ran outside and found Cruz lying in a gangway, and saw a man or boy wearing a grey hooded sweatshirt running down the alley.
Another witness saw a man or boy who matched the description the girlfiend gave run and get into a red car. The witness was able to identify the person who ran and drove off as Ortega.
Soon after the shooting, Ortega met up with someone and told them he had shot someone.
Investigators were able to determine that Ortega called Cruz three minutes before the shooting, and records also show Ortega’s phone was in the area of Cruz’s home at the time of the shooting.
At the time of the killing, Ortega was on a two-year juvenile parole in a case of aggravated discharge of a firearm

Man, 51, charged with killing woman during '09 burglary

A 51-year-old prison inmate has been charged with murder in the killing of a 57-year-old woman during a 2009 break-in.
George Patterson, of the 1400 block of South Canal Street, faces one count of murder in the August 9, 2009 killing of Iris Ambrose in her home. Patterson was ordered held without bail in a hearing midday today before Criminal Court Judge Adam Bourgeois Jr.
Patterson, who is currently serving time for a retail theft, is accused of fatally beating and strangling Ambrose during a pre-dawn robbery in the 6800 block of South Marshfield Avenue.
Someone Ambrose knew borrowed her car the night before she was found dead. About 2:30 a.m. or 3 a.m. on Aug. 9, the witness received a phone call from Ambrose, who left a voice mail asking when the car would be returned.
When the witness returned to Ambrose's house, they found the front gate and the home's front door open, and found Ambrose on her couch, injured. The witness called 911.
Although police have said they believed the home-invasion was meant to be a burglary, Ambrose's jewelry and purse were not taken. Following an autopsy, the Cook County medical examiner's office determined Ambrose died from strangulation, but also found she also suffered head wounds, bite marks on her tongue and abrasions to her neck.
DNA evidence gathered from under Ambrose's fingernails identified Ambrose. Area South Cold Case detectives identified Patterson as the suspect in Ambrose's killing using the DNA evidence.
Patterson has nine prior felony convictions. At the time of the slaying, he was on parole in a 2009 retail theft case. He currently is serving an 18-month sentence for a 2012 retail theft case

Man charged with attacking girl, 15, on way to school

A 25-year-old Northwest Side man has been charged in the mid-December sexual assault of a teenage girl whose injuries were so severe that she remains in critical condition.
Detectives were led to Luis Alberto Pantoja, 25, through DNA that officials collected from a condom wrapper found near the Belmont Cragin backyard where the girl was attacked just before dawn Dec. 17.
Pantoja was arrested at his home on Friday without incident, police said in a statement, saying additional physical evidence was recovered then.
Pantoja, of the 5500 block of West Wrightwood Avenue, is charged with attempted first-degree murder, aggravated criminal sexual assault, aggravated battery and unlawful use of a weapon by a felon. He was ordered held without bail during a hearing today.
Authorities asked for a sign language interpreter during the hearing. Pantoja is hearing-impaired.
Pantoja was found with a gun -- police said in a release it was a .32-caliber revolver-- but it's unclear if he had it during the attack.
The attack happened in 2400 block of North Long Avenue about 5:25 a.m. The girl was found by a neighbor about two hours later, half-clothed and bleeding from the head.
Further investigation showed that the girl was actually attacked an hour earlier than detectives originally thought. When she was attacked at 5:25 a.m. on Dec. 17, the girl was on her way to catch a bus so that she can meet her father, who was to give her a ride to school.
He said the girl would usually leave a little later in the morning to do all that, which is why police thought the attack initially occurred later in the morning.
The DNA evidence was submitted to the Combined DNA Index System -- a federal database that tracks DNA profiles of convicted felons. Chicago police acquired a match from that database because Pantoja had been required to submit a sample of his DNA to law enforcement following a felony conviction for his role in a fatal 2007 traffic crash.
In that case, Pantoja was sentenced to six years in the Illinois Department of Corrections after pleading guilty on March 4, 2008 to possession of a stolen motor vehicle and failure to report a traffic crash that involved death. In the plea deal, charges of reckless homicide and failure to report an accident involving death were dropped.
Police officials declined to say who identified Pantoja as the attacker in the Dec. 17 attack on the 15-year-old.
The 15-year-old girl was initially reported in a coma with severe head injuries. Late last month, officials said the girl's condition had improved and she was talking with police. Police said in a news release today that she remained in critical condition at Mt. Sinai Hospital.
Pantoja has a long criminal record dating back to 2005, with arrests and charges for theft, possession of a stolen motor vehicle, domestic battery after an order of protection was filed, trespassing, possession of cannabis, failure to report an accident involving death/reckless homicide, leaving the scene of accident, and eluding police.
In August of 2013, Pantoja was arrested for criminal sexual assault. On Aug. 29, a public defender was appointed and appeared before Judge Maria Kuriakos Ciesil, who set bail of $200,000.
On Pantoja's next court date Sept. 17, Judge Laura Marie Sullivan dismissed the charge on a finding of no probable cause

Man charged in '09 double homicide in Albany Park

Authorities have charged a 23-year-old man in connection with the 2009 slayings of a man and woman in the Northwest Side's Albany Park neighborhood.
Samuel Parsons-Salas, of the 3800 block of North Nordica Avenue, was arrested Friday and charged Saturday with two counts of first-degree murder.
The charges are in connection with the shooting deaths of Alex Santiago, 24, and his girlfriend Angelina Escobar, 19, in the 3500 block of West Sunnyside Avenue about 1 a.m. on Sept. 21, 2009.
Parsons-Salas is the second person charged in the case. In January of 2011, Christopher Doehring was charged with two counts of first-degree murder, two counts of armed robery and two counts of home invasion. Authorities believe the pair entered the victims' apartment and made off with several possessions after the shootings.

Men charged in Sprint cell phone store robbery

Two Chicago men were arrested Thursday morning in Chicago Lawn and accused of robbing a Sprint cell phone store at gunpoint.
Omar Anderson, 20, and Victor Mayberry, 18, entered the cell phone outlet, 7920 S. Western Ave., in the morning armed with a gun, according to court records. The men then told two store employees to stuff cash from the register and as many cell phones, particularly iPhones, as they could into bags.
Prosecutors said one employee pushed the store's emergency alarm while another brought one of the men into the back of the store to collect more cell phones, and the two men then fled the store. Anderson escaped in a car but one employee gave chase in his car until an accident stopped him; police later caught up with Anderson in the 7700 block of South Western Avenue, where he was arrested.
Mayberry, who was charged with aggravated battery to a police officer, theft, and an aggravated unlawful weapons offense, was arrested in the 7500 block of South Western Avenue after he punched his arresting officer in the face and chest

Teen hijacks car, forces woman to call fiancé for cash

A  teen forced his way into a car in the Edgewater neighborhood and ordered a woman inside to call her fiancé to get cash.
Broderick Epps, 18, walked up to the car in the 1100 block of West Ardmore Avenue around 10:15 p.m. on New Year's Day.  He indicated he had a gun and then began driving around while demanding cash from an 18-year-old woman who was in the car.
The woman told Epps she did not have any money and he ordered her to call her fiancé.
Foster District police were flagged down by the fiancé, who told them about the call and that he was supposed to meet up with the robber. Officers went to the location and  spotted Epps walking north with the woman.
Epps saw the officers and ran, but he was caught in the 6400 block of North Sheridan Road and identified by the woman.
Epps, of the 4200 block of Main Street in Skokie, was charged with vehicular hijacking, vehicular invasion and unlawful restraint, all felonies

Man charged in series of robberies on the NW Side

A 49-year-old man who was arrested minutes after he tried to rob a Walgreens Drug Store on New Year's Eve has been charged in a series of similar robberies on the Northwest Side.
Robert E. Williams, of the 1000 block of North Kedzie Avenue, was charged with five counts of aggravated robbery and violating his probation.
Williams was arrested on New Year's Eve after he walked into the Walgreens store on the 2400 block of West North Avenue at 3:08 p.m.
After entering the store, he approached the cashier and announced that he was committing a robbery and implied that he had a weapon.
The 28-year-old cashier handed over cash to Williams who then left the store. As he tried to flee, two people who noticed what had happened, tackled the man and held him for police.
Shakespeare District officers then responded took him into custody. Police also found the money that he had just received in the robbery.
During the investigation police discovered that Williams had also been responsible for other robberies including the robbery of a gas station on the 2800 block of North Ashland Avenue on Dec. 29.
In most cases, Williams approached cashiers, supposedly to purchase items, and then announced a robbery.  In all of the incidents, Williams  threatened the victims by implying he had a weapon

Police: Charges filed in West Pullman sexual assault

Charges have been filed against a Far South Side man accused of a fall 2011 sexual assault.
Dwayne Towns, 51, of the 12200 block of South Morgan Street, is charged with aggravated criminal sexual assault with a firearm and kidnapping with a firearm.
The attack occurred Sept. 4, 2011, in the 12200 block of South Sangamon Street and Towns was identified as the suspect through DNA evidence and a physical lineup.

Man charged in Midway Orange Line, Montclare rape attacks

A  30-year-old Park West man was charged with a pair of sexual assaults on Friday – one near the Orange Line at Midway Airport and the other in the Montclare neighborhood on the Northwest Side.
James Whiteside, of the 600 block of West Deming Street on the North Side. Whiteside was charged with 8 felonies in connection with the two attacks.
The first attack happened in the Montclare neighborhood about 2:30 a.m. on Dec. 27. Whiteside attacked a woman trying to get into her car after leaving a White Castle restaurant near Belmont and Harlem avenues
The attacker pushed his victim into her car as she opened the driver-side door and, holding a pair of 3-inch scissors and covering her mouth, told her not to scream.
The woman told police she noticed the man as she walked into the White Castle at Belmont and Harlem avenues but didn’t pay him much attention because she thought he was homeless.
The man threatened to kill her and then drove her to a nearby side street and raped her.
The man then kept her in the car, drove until the car broke down on Diversey Avenue and threw her car keys away. He took her phone, debit card and walked her to a bank to try and withdraw money.
The two walked to a nearby gas station and the attacker used $50 he stole from the woman to pay a stranger for a ride to the house of the attacker's aunt in the West Humboldt Park neighborhood. They stopped at a McDonald's along the way.
The attacker gave some of the woman's money to people at his aunt's house. He then called a cab, took two kids and the victim with him to a McDonald's and then to Harlem and Belmont avenues where he dropped her off.
He told her not to say anything to anyone before leaving. The woman went to a building a few blocks away and called 911.
She told police the man said his name was "James" but that "she should call him Mr. White or (Sergeant) Nelson" .
The second attack happened about 4:15 p.m. Friday in a secured parking lot off the Orange Line at Midway Airport in the Garfield Ridge neighborhood. Chicago police warned people in the area to be vigilant after the attack.
Police said the attacker pushed the 69-year-old woman into her car as she opened her door and demanded money from her before he raped her.
He tried to leave the lot by driving the woman's car but couldn't find the parking pass card so he told the woman to be quiet and duck while he used her money to fill out a parking slip and pay the attendant.
The woman was in fear for her life because her attacker drove her to the West Side and made continuous threats along the way.
While driving around the West Side, her attacker "purchased narcotics" twice and picked up a woman he knew, drove to a liquor store and used the 69-year-old's ATM card to get $200.
He dropped the woman off at a bus stop and she told the attacker to be careful. He then left the victim and her car in the West Garfield Park neighborhood at Madison Street and Pulaski Road.
The victim called 911 but left the area to report the crime from closer to home. Two more withdrawals were made for a total of $300.
Whiteside "implicated himself" to other people in the attacks and gave details consistent with the victim's account. He told residents he "robbed and raped a woman the night before".
Detectives were in the West Humboldt Park neighborhood when Whiteside showed up to a building where detectives were investigating and tried to run when he learned detectives were there.
They chased him into a basement stairwell in the 4100 block of West Crystal Street and he was arrested there.
He was charged with aggravated criminal sexual assault of a victim older than 60 years old, aggravated criminal sexual assault with a weapon, aggravated unlawful restraint, aggravated kidnapping, armed robbery with a dangerous weapon, aggravated robbery and aggravated vehicular hijacking.

3rd person charged in May dismemberment slaying

A third person has been arrested and charged in connection with the slaying and decapitation of a West Side man in May.
Milton Miranda, who is believed to be the boyfriend  of a woman already charged in the slaying, was arrested in Morristown, N.J. and charged with first degree murder in the death of Jose Reyes in May.
Daisy Gutierrez, 19, had earlier been charged with first degree murder in connection with Reyes' death and her father Salvador Gutierrez, 56, was charged with concealing a homicide.
According to what Cook County prosecutors said after Daisy Gutierrez was arrested and charged in October, she and her boyfriend had lured Reyes to her Southwest Side home, in the 8300 block of South Scottsdale Avenue, where she led him to her bedroom and began to undress. The boyfriend then kicked in the door and attacked Reyes, slitting his throat and later decapitating him.
The boyfriend then dismembered Reyes' body and Salvador Gutierrez dug a hole in the backyard and buried the remains.
Both Daisy Gutierrez and her father were arrested in October, but the boyfriend fled to New Jersey and a warrant was issued for his arrest. Miranda was taken into custody by Chicago police on Saturday.
Gutierrez has two children, ages 2 and 1, with Reyes' brother.
Reyes, of the 1400 block of North Harding Avenue in Humboldt Park, had been reported missing soon after he had gone to see Gutierrez and his family had peppered his neighborhood with fliers asking for information on the Honduran native's disappearance.
Reyes, whose age was listed by authorities as 28, though his family said he was 30, moved to Chicago five years ago in hopes of improving his life.
The oldest of four children, Reyes worked in construction and sent most of his money back home to Tegucigalpa, where he has family, his brother Jorge Moncada Ramos said. Reyes had planned to return to Honduras to take care of his ill sister.

Man held without bail in slaying of girlfriend's ex-boyfriend

A West Side man has been charged with first degree murder in the Friday morning slaying of a man in the Austin neighborhood.
Shaughnessy Simms, Jr., 31, of the 5900 block of West Midway Park, was arrested Friday morning and charged in connection with the Friday shooting death.
The victim was identified by the Cook County medical examiner's office as 36-year-old Jermale Richardson, of the 5100 block of West Ohio Street, in Chicago.
The shooting occurred about 3:50 a.m. Friday on the first floor of a building in the block where Simms lived. At the time, police said the shooting may have been related to a domestic dispute.

Man shot during bad drug deal called 911 before he died

A man shot during a drug deal gone bad was able to call 911 and give authorities a description of the getaway car before he died.
Daquon E. Renfro, 19, and Antonio Cox, 20, were charged with murder and attempted robbery after they allegedly approached 23-year-old Christopher Lang just before midnight on Sunday to buy some marijuana in the 3400 block of West 72nd Street in the Marquette Park neighborhood.
Prosecutors said Renfro pulled out a gun, and Cox began patting Lang’s pockets. Renfro then pointed the gun at Lang and shot him in the chest. The shooting was captured on video.
Bail was denied Wednesday for Renfro, of the 6000 block of South Wabash Avenue. Cox, of the 8400 block of South Throop Street, was ordered held on $2 million bail. Renfro had a warrant out for his arrest at the time of the shooting. Cox was on parole for a previous drug conviction.
Even after Lang fell to his knees, Cox searched the ground for the marijuana, prosecutors said. After Cox, Renfro and two others allegedly drove off in a 2000 Oldsmobile Alero, Lang made the 911 call.
Police spotted the Oldsmobile and began following the car, at which point someone tossed a bag containing a .38 revolver out the window. When the driver stopped, the four of them ran, but police were able to catch and arrest them.
Lang, of the 3500 block of West 72nd Place, was pronounced dead at 3:22 a.m. Monday at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn

Assistant soccer coach charged with assaulting player, 14

A 30-year-old assistant youth soccer coach is charged with sexually assaulting a 14-year-old boy he recruited to play on two soccer teams.
Hector Morales, of the 2600 block of West 25th Street in the Little Village neighborhood, allegedly picked up the boy Friday and drove him to his soccer game, then bought beer on the way home that he gave to the youth.
Morales and the boy were drinking beer when the youth coach allegedly began fondling the boy and performed oral sex on him in the 2500 block of West Cermak Road.
“Defendant told the victim that this was their secret” . Morales then purchased soda and candy for the boy at a nearby Wal-Mart and dropped him off at home.
The boy immediately told a family member what happened and went to a hospital.
Morales was arrested Saturday when he went to the teen’s home to pick him up for another soccer game

Two charged in meat cleaver, stun gun attack

A Chicago Heights man and a South Austin woman both face attempted murder charges after they allegedly lured a man into the woman's apartment Friday and attacked him with a meat cleaver and a stun gun.
Brian Herman, of the 100 block of West Raye Drive in Chicago Heights, and Shaquietta Brison, of the 0-100 block of South Mayfield Avenue, were also charged with aggravated battery with a deadly weapon in connection to Friday's incident.
It is not clear why the 19-year-old victim ventured into Brison's apartment Friday, but once he was in there, Herman attacked him with a meat cleaver, screaming, "I'm going to kill your ass.
As Herman hacked at the man, Brison jolted him with a stun gun, Logan said.
Herman was ordered held in lieu of $750,000 Sunday, while Brison's bail was set at $100,000.
The victim was taken to Mt. Sinai Hospital and treated for cuts to three fingers that were deep enough to require surgery to repair as well as abrasions to the face and fingers.
Police were alerted to the melee when a neighbor called 911.
Herman and Brison are also facing charges for filing a false report.
When police arrived, Herman and Brison told police that the victim had broken into Brison's residence and that Herman had attacked the victim because he choked Brison and was about to sexually assault her.
Brison later recanted and told police the true sequence of events

Marshals corner carjacking/murder suspect in McDonald's drive-thru

A suspect in a string of weekend carjackings, including one that ended in a crash that killed an 11-year-old boy, was arrested this morning after U.S. marshals in SUVs pinned him in at a McDonald's drive-thru in Milwaukee.
Rockie Douglas, 34, was waiting for food at the McDonald's on the northwest side of the city when deputy marshals pulled in front and back of him around 11:30 a.m., according to Ed Farrell, supervisory inspector of the task force. A woman in the car with him was not injured
We developed information that he was on the north side of (Milwaukee)," Farrell said. "We were able to pin him in the drive-thru and keep him from fleeing again."
Douglas was spotted still driving the blue Honda Accord he had carjacked on the ramp from Interstate Highway 294 to the Reagan Memorial Tollway to escape police over the weekend, authorities said. He was taken to the Milwaukee County Jail to await extradition to Chicago
Douglas had been sought since Saturday when, driving a stolen car, he barreled into a Chevrolet Suburban and killed 11-year-old Donovan Turnage on the South Side. Donovan, his brother and their father were out getting haircuts for the holiday
 Douglas embarked on a carjacking spree around 11:20 a.m. Friday on the North Side, when he forced a woman out of a green Dodge minivan at a gas station along West Irving Park Road.
About noon on Saturday, officers responded to a 911 call of a suspicious vehicle at 51st and Halsted streets in the Back of the Yards neighborhood, another police source said. When officers identified the vehicle as the one that had been carjacked the day before, they tried to approach it but the driver sped away.
Police pursued the vehicle south on Halsted until at Garfield Boulevard it crashed into the Chevrolet Suburban carrying the Turnage family.
The suspect then raced away on foot and, authorities allege, carjacked another vehicle, a Toyota SUV, at a nearby gas station. While driving the SUV, the suspect rammed into a police sergeant's squad car before heading onto Garfield in the opposite lanes of traffic.
Chicago police stopped pursuing the driver once he entered the Dan Ryan Expressway about a mile away. He again drove in the wrong direction, heading north in the southbound lanes.
But then, according to the chain of events described by authorities, the SUV broke down on a ramp from I-294 to the Reagan Memorial Tollway. A motorist driving a blue Honda Accord tried to help the man, later identified by police as Douglas. Douglas allegedly forced his way into the car and sped off west on the Reagan toll way.
Police say Douglas displayed a handgun during at least one of the carjackings. Douglas may also be linked to robberies in Oak Lawn and Burbank that occurred on Saturday

Little Village man held in sexual assault of girl, 4

A Little Village man sexually assaulted a 4-year-old girl over several months in 2006, showing her pornographic films and asking her to copy what she sawprosecutors.
Patricio Garcia, 49, was ordered held in lieu of $500,000 bond today in connection with the attacks, which prosecutors said the girl reported earlier this month. The girl is cousins with Garcia, who babysat her at the time of the incidents.
Between June 2006 and September 2006, Garcia showed the girl pornographic movies and told her, "You need to do this for me or you'll see what happens" . Prosecutors said Garcia made the girl engage in sexual acts with him during that time.
About a week ago, the girl told a social worker at her school about the assaults.
After he was arrested, Garcia told authorities he "must've been possessed" when he sexually assaulted the girl nine years ago.
Garcia, of the 2300 block of South Central Park Avenue, faces four charges of sexual assault, sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of a child

Teen killed man after questioning where he was from

Egged on by others, a teen fatally shot a man Thursday afternoon on the South Side after demanding to know where he was from.
Iman Frison, 18, was ordered held without bail Saturday in connection with the slaying of Andre Hunter, 19, about 2:40 p.m. Thursday in the Winneconna Parkway neighborhood.
While walking home from school near the 7700 block of South Stewart Avenue, Hunter and a witness were approached from behind by Frison. Frison pointed a revolver at Hunter's chest and asked him where he and the witness were from.
After Hunter moved the gun out of his way, other people surrounding Frison encouraged him to shoot Hunter. Frison shot Hunter five times, including three times after the victim had fallen and the gun had jammed.
Hunter, of the 7900 block of South Princeton Avenue, was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn and pronounced dead about an hour lateroffice.
A witness alerted police soon after the shooting. An officer drove after Frison and the others before getting out and running after them, noticing Frison was grabbing his waistband as if he had a weapon.
Kwilos said a gun fell from Frison as he fled, and his hand later tested positive for gunshot residue. Police confiscated a large-caliber revolver that came from his waistband.

Frison, of the 1700 block of East 72nd Street, has been charged with first-degree murder

Man charged in March slaying

A teenager has been charged in the March slaying of a man in South Shore, police said today.
Jarvis M. Lewis, 18, has been charged with murder in the March 23 killing of Antonio Grey, 26, who died after being shot in the 7800 block of South Muskegon Avenue. In a hearing midday today in Cook County Criminal Court, Lewis was ordered held without bail.
Grey was standing on the street when someone shot him in the back at 9:47 a.m. that day. Grey lived in the 8100 block of South Muskegan Avenue, and was pronounced dead at 12:09 p.m. March 23 at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
Lewis, who lives in the 2800 block of East 78th Street, also near where Grey was shot, is on probation in a 2012 burglary case and had had a warrant issued for his arrest in June when he failed to show up for court in that case, according to court records. Police were able to obtain a murder warrant for Lewis on Dec. 12 that carries a $1 million bond, according to court records.

No bail for man charged in Rogers Park attack that blinded woman

A judge denied bail today for a 23-year-old man accused of a knife attack in the Rogers Park neighborhood that blinded a woman Thursday morning.
Basil Mohandie appeared before Judge Laura Marie Sullivan, who denied bail for Mohanie, charged with attempted first-degree murder and aggravated assault and battery with a deadly weapon.
The woman was stabbed in the eyes and face, and the tendons in both wrists were cut as well as a major artery in her leg, police said. She was attacked around 6:20 a.m. Thursday in the 1600 block of West Touhy Avenue.
Police said Mohandie, of the 6900 block of West Nelson Street, and the victim had met to talk Thursday morning.
The woman was listed in serious condition at Saint Francis Hospital in Evanston after the attack.