Overview
- Pedro Villarreal, 34, was arrested in Cicero and charged with murder, attempted murder and weapons offenses in the Dec. 23 Pink Line shooting that killed Raymond S. Harrison Jr., 44, and wounded a 23-year-old.
- Investigators say the Pink Line incident began with a confrontation involving a knife before Villarreal seized a victim’s gun and opened fire; a detention hearing was scheduled for Monday.
- Chicago police are probing four CTA stabbings in five days, including a 34-year-old seriously injured on a Red Line train near 69th Street and a 37-year-old fatally stabbed on a Blue Line train at Clark-Lake.
- A 23-year-old Rush University Medical Center employee was shot multiple times while sitting in a parked car outside the campus and remained in critical condition as the shooter’s vehicle fled.
- Milwaukee authorities identified two teens killed in a Jan. 10 triple shooting near 34th and Sheridan, including 17-year-old Jorey Anderson found hours later, with a 16-year-old injured and no arrests announced; a separate downtown shooting left a 27-year-old hospitalized.