Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Burbank Police and federal agents searched a Chicago home last month which could be linked to an area double murder.
The investigation into an elderly Burbank couple found murdered in their home on March 6 is now focused on the male victim as a possible target, says a source close to the investigation. Peter Mountain, 79, who went by the nickname “Rocky,” and his long-time girlfriend, Sally Lopez, 80, were found shot and stabbed multiple times in their home in the 6400 block of West 83rd Place in Burbank. Mountain had also been bludgeoned, according to reports. Burbank Police believe the double murder to be an isolated incident with no threat to the immediate community. There were no signs of forced entry, nor was burglary or robbery a motive, they said. The South Suburban Major Crimes Task Force is focusing its investigation on Mountain as a possible …
Sunday, March 17, 2013
Lack of communication from police in Burbank caused confusion with two separate criminal incidents, including a double homicide and police chase that forced schools to go on soft lockdown.
Friday, March 8, 2013
Autopsy results reveal elderly couple were shot and stabbed multiple times. Over 40 police investigations comb for leads.
Autopsy results of an elderly couple found dead in their Burbank home on Wednesday morning revealed a different set of circumstances in what began as murder-suicide investigation. Sign up for the Oak Lawn Patch newsletter and follow us on Facebook. Burbank police upgraded their death investigation to a homicide investigation when Thursday's autopsy results from the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office revealed that both had been shot and stabbed multiple times. A family member found Peter Mountain, 78, and Sally Lopez, 80, dead in their bedroom around 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, in the 6400 block of West 83rd Place, in Burbank. WGN News reported that Mountain sustained several gunshot wounds and had cuts around his neck. Lopez also sustained …
Thursday, March 7, 2013
Burbank police find abandoned vehicle from chase that originated from Chicago. Subject caught in suburb turned over to Chicago Police.
Burbank police nabbed a man after a pursuit that began in Chicago and spilled over the Burbank border, putting the city’s public and parochial elementary schools on soft lockdown Wednesday afternoon. Sign up for Patch breaking news alerts: Oak Lawn / Evergreen Park The police chase began in the Chicago Lawn neighborhood in the 8th police district near 83rd and Ashland Avenue, Officer Veejay Zala of Chicago Police News Affairs said. At 1:45 p.m., gang officers observed a three male blacks driving erratically in a black Mercedes Benz, Zala said. When the Chicago gang officers pulled the Mercedes over, the car fled with police in hot pursuit. Zala said that at some point during the chase, the Mercedes went in reverse and struck a Chicago …
CBS-2 News reporting that authorities are investigating the deaths of two elderly adults as a murder-suicide.
Burbank Police and the Southwest Suburban Major Crimes Task Force are conducting a death investigation into two adults discovered inside a home in the 6400 block of West 83rd Place. Sign up for Oak Lawn Patch breaking news alerts and follow us on Facebook. Police officers found an 80-year-old female and 78-year-old male in a bedroom while conducting a well-being check around 9:30 a.m. Wednesday. Both were declared dead at the scene with apparent gunshot wounds, a police news release said. Officers at the scene said there were no signs of forced entry into the home. The bodies were transported to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office. Burbank detectives and investigators from the major crimes task force do not believe the deaths to be a…
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6400 W 83rd Pl, Burbank, IL
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Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Burbank schools under police watch, children being released from soft lockdown.
5:24 p.m. Wednesday -- News release from Burbank PD. Police investigation continues on 5700 block of 83rd Place: "Chicago Police were pursuing a vehicle from an incident that took place in the City of Chicago. Chicago lost sight of the vehicle and shortly after that incident and Burbank Police received a call of a suspicious vehicle at 1:55 PM in the 5700 block of 83rd Place. The caller indicates that three subjects described two male blacks and one female black running from the vehicle. Burbank Police responded to the area and set a perimeter and began searching the area. One subject was located and turned over to Chicago Police in the area of 87th Street and Central. Burbank and assisting units from several other departments …
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Couple hit homes of elderly victims in Burbank and Bridgeview on Jan. 18.
Bridgeview Police are warning area residents to be on the lookout for a man and a woman who’ve schemed their way into the homes of elderly residents. Connect with Patch: Evergreen Park / Beverly-Mt. Greenwood / Oak Lawn At 6 p.m. Jan. 18, an elderly victim heard a knock at the front door of her home in the 7700 block of West 80th Place, in Bridgeview. When the elderly woman opened the door she saw a white female and male standing there. The female told the elderly woman that she lives on the block and needed her help in finding kids in the area starting fires. Bridgeview Police said the female entered the elderly woman’s home without being invited. While standing in her kitchen, the elderly victim noticed the male accomplice at the back…
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Burbank Police respond to report of gunfire near 81st Place and Mayfield on Tuesday afternoon. No injuries were reported but bullets struck some homes.
Gunshots rang out near 81st Street and Mayfield Avenue in Burbank on Tuesday afternoon putting a junior high school on lockdown as police combed the streets looking for a possible discarded gun and suspects. Subscribe to the Oak Lawn Patch newsletter and breaking news alerts. Police sent out a five-part text over the Everbridge emergency system to residents regarding the shooting at 3:55 p.m: "The Burbank Police Department responded to a shots fire called in the area of 81st Place and Mayfield at 2:22 pm this afternoon October 2nd. No one was injured but property damage did occur. Police officers are currently in the area searching for a possible discarded handgun with the use of metal detectors and K9 officers. Liberty Junior High School …
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Thursday, August 2, 2012
Four people were shot outside a home in Burbank early Thursday morning, Chicago Breaking News reported. An Oak Lawn Patch reader who went to the scene also shares her report.
Chicago Breaking News reported that four people were shot in the early morning hours outside a Burbank home on Thursday morning. The shooting occurred around 3:30 a.m. Thursday at 85th Place and Narragansett Avenue and appears to be gang-related Burbank cops said. All four victims were taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center with non-life threatening injuries. Oak Lawn Patch reader Bethany Jessie-Roche said she received a 5-part “Crime Alert for Burbank, IL” text message that read: “Apparently, there is a report of shots fired at 6401 W. 86th Street in Burbank, IL. Burbank police responded to 6401 W 86th St in regards to a 'shots fired' call. Upon arrival, officers encountered four persons who had been shot in an apparent gang motivated …
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6401 W 86th St, Burbank, IL
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Friday, May 18, 2012
Cell phone records for Arnoldo Jiminez, charged in the murder of his 26-year-old wife, last place him in Hidalgo, TX, near the Mexican border. Burbank Police seek public's help in locating him.
The FBI has joined an international manhunt for a missing bridegroom after his new wife was found slain in their Burbank apartment hours after they were married last weekend. A federal warrant charging Arnoldo Jiminez, 30, with unlawful flight to avoid prosecution was issued Thursday in U.S. District Court in Chicago. Jiminez was charged earlier this week in Cook County Criminal Court with one count of first- degree murder for the stabbing death of his 26-year-old wife, Estrella Carrera. (Read the federal warrant.) According to the Burbank police report, the couple was hastily married last Friday, May 11, at Chicago City Hall. Afterward, the couple dined at a Chicago restaurant with a small group of family and friends, before boarding a …
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10:11 pm on Thursday, April 25, 2013
because the chicago police probably have their hands full with the crimes they can barely keep under control/solve at the moment... more ›