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Weekend Downtown Violence: Chicago Files Charges in Loop Stabbing as NYC Hunts Times Square Attackers

Officials are weighing curfews plus faster removal of online event posts after teen crowds swelled around holiday festivities.

Overview

  • Chicago police charged three teenagers in the fatal stabbing of a man believed to be homeless near South Wabash and Adams, including a 16-year-old and a 14-year-old with first-degree murder and another 14-year-old with armed robbery.
  • A 23-year-old man, Samuel Alvarado Moreno, was also charged with felony criminal damage to government property in the Loop case after six people were initially taken into custody.
  • Cook County Crime Stoppers offered a $10,000 reward tied to the Loop shootings that wounded seven teens and killed 14-year-old Armani Floyd, and a separate nonprofit announced a $5,000 reward focused on Floyd’s killing.
  • In New York City, police are seeking three suspects in the Times Square attack that left a 23-year-old man beaten with a bat and fatally stabbed near West 49th Street and Seventh Avenue, with descriptions circulated including one suspect in a purple hoodie.
  • Separate NYC homicides over the weekend left 39-year-old Gibson Winters shot dead outside a Hell’s Kitchen nightclub and 24-year-old Randy Blanche killed in a Bronx shooting, with no arrests reported in either case.