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chicago.suntimes.com | David Struett
Jayden Perkins’ grandmother was on the phone with the 11-year-old’s mother as the boy’s killer burst through the door of their Edgewater apartment, she testified in court Wednesday. “I heard screams and, ‘No, C.O.! No!,” Shirese Turner said, referring to the nickname of the man on trial, Crosetti Brand. Turner’s emotional testimony opened the third day of the murder trial of Brand, 39.
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chicago.suntimes.com | David Struett
Lilliam Rodriguez still remembers the horror of what she found when she answered her neighbor’s desperate cries. Cracking open the door of the Edgewater apartment, she saw a 5-year-old child standing, crying, asking for help. Then she saw the child’s mother, Laterria Smith, bleeding from her neck. Smith’s 11-year-old son, Jayden Perkins, was lying on the ground, fatally wounded by a knife. Rodriguez was the first person to respond to the crime scene on March 13, 2024.
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chicago.suntimes.com | David Struett
Robert Prevost made history twice this week. First as the first U.S.-born pope — and second as the first pontiff with recent ancestors who were Creole people of color in New Orleans, something the new pope has never acknowledged publicly. Pope Leo XIV‘s maternal grandparents are described as Black or “mulatto” New Orleans residents in historical documents dug up by New Orleans-based genealogist Jari Honora.
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1 week ago |
chicago.suntimes.com | David Struett
After 17 years of delays, the national mandate requiring Real IDs to fly domestically kicked off Wednesday — sort of. Passengers without the enhanced IDs — or other acceptable identification, such as a passport — were still allowed to board their flights with additional random security checks.
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wbez.org | David Struett
A Plainfield landlord was sentenced to 53 years in prison Friday for attacking his Palestinian American tenant and killing her son, 6-year-old Wadee Al Fayoumi — stabbing him 26 times — in one of the most violent hate crimes to immediately follow the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attacks in Israel. But the sentence was not enough to console the boy’s grandfather, who asked the convicted Joseph Czuba in court to explain why he did it.
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