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Matthew Hendrickson

Staff reporter

Matthew Hendrickson is a staff reporter and editor.

Officials have struggled to explain why Crosetti Brand, 37, was released from the Stateville Correctional Center on Tuesday — a day before the attack — after he had been sent back to prison earlier this year for menacing the woman while on parole.
Brothers Reginald Henderson and Sean Tyler were convicted of a 1994 murder in Back of the Yards but say they were tortured by detectives working under Chicago Police Cmdr. Jon Burge.
Michael Cunningham, 18, was arrested and charged with the murder of Chiyenne Washington, police said.
The Civilian Office of Police Accountability, which investigates use of force incidents, posted about 4:15 p.m. that it was investigating an officer-involved shooting in the 8000 block of South Western Avenue.
Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 7 President John Catanzara said he voted for Eileen O’Neill Burke and encouraged officers in the union to do so. But he added that Burke’s opponent, Clayton Harris, would be “a step up” from State’s Attorney Kim Foxx, who is not running for re-election.
Miembros del jurado comenzaron a deliberar una semana después de que los fiscales iniciaran su caso contra Emonte Morgan, con vídeos frecuentemente gráficos de las cámaras corporales que llevaban French y el agente Carlos Yáñez durante una parada de tráfico en West Englewood en 2021.
Fired CTA employee Emmett Richardson faces murder and aggravated battery charges in the March 2023 attack against Kevin Powell.
Jurors started deliberating a week after prosecutors began their case against Emonte Morgan, with often graphic video from cameras worn by French and Officer Carlos Yanez during a West Englewood traffic stop in 2021.
A gathering of young people that had been planned in advance through social media turned violent, a pastor said. Police took nine other teens into custody, charging them with misdemeanors.