Overview
- Chicago police charged two boys, ages 14 and 16, with first-degree murder in the stabbing of a man believed to be homeless, with another 14-year-old charged with armed robbery and a 23-year-old charged with criminal damage.
- Six people had been taken into custody earlier in the Loop case, and Cook County Crime Stoppers is offering up to $10,000 for information.
- In Midtown, a 23-year-old was beaten with a baseball bat and fatally stabbed near West 49th Street and Seventh Avenue, and police released descriptions of three suspects being sought.
- NYPD is also investigating the fatal shooting of 39-year-old Gibson Winters near a Hell’s Kitchen nightclub and the killing of 24-year-old Randy Blanche in the Bronx, with no arrests announced.
- Chicago’s downtown shootings after the Millennium Park tree lighting left 14-year-old Armani Floyd dead and seven other teens wounded, with rewards including $10,000 from Crime Stoppers and $5,000 from a nonprofit.