Training News

A high school senior in Indiana was shot during a law enforcement vocational training session when one of the deputies conducting the training session "accidentally" fired his service weapon, rather than a "dummy gun," reports say. Read more...

A 42-year-old man died at the hospital after he was shot multiple times outside of an apartment building in Zion Wednesday evening, authorities said. A Zion Fire-Rescue Department ambulance was on the scene of a medical call around 8:25 p.m. Wednesday when they reported hearing active gunfire nearby. Read more...

A 15-year-old boy has been arrested after he allegedly robbed a man at gunpoint during a meetup for the sale of shoes near Lake Villa, police said. Lake County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Chief Christopher Covelli said an 18-year-old man from Round Lake Beach was selling a new pair of shoes. Read more...

Police are investigating multiple burglaries to businesses in Lake Villa and other towns that are believed to have been committed by the same suspects. The Lake Villa Police Department responded around 3:30 a.m. on October 2 to the Citgo gas station, 400 East Grand Avenue in Lake Villa, for a burglar alarm. Read more...

Prosecutors say two brothers beat a man in an unprovoked attack, leaving him and a woman, who tried to intervene in the first attack, injured in the parking lot of a Round Lake Beach business. Stimpson M. Stowers, 23, of Genoa City, Wisconsin, was charged with aggravated battery using a deadly weapon, aggravated battery causing [...]

Police say an initial report of shots fired at passing vehicles turned out to be someone throwing or slingshotting rocks, which damaged several vehicles on the border of Lake County and Kenosha County. The Kenosha County Sheriff’s Department responded around 1:06 p.m. Tuesday to an area west of State Line Road and 136th Avenue, which [...]

A man is facing felony charges after he allegedly pistol-whipped a woman and then shot her at an apartment in Waukegan on Saturday, prosecutors said. Javier Montes, 39, of the 4100 block of Greenleaf Court in Park City, was charged with aggravated battery by discharging a firearm, aggravated battery causing great bodily harm, child endangerment [...]

Three suspects escaped from police after two of them robbed a convenience store at gunpoint in Marengo and then led officers on a pursuit, which ended in a crash. The Marengo Police Department responded around 2:14 a.m. Tuesday to Casey’s General Store, 200 East Grant Highway in Marengo, for an armed robbery. Read more...

A portion of Route 120 in Lakemoor was shut down for 10 hours Thursday after a dump truck knocked down a traffic light and multiple electric and cable poles, police said. The McHenry Township Fire Protection District and Lakemoor Police Department responded to a single-vehicle crash at Route 120 and Lily Lake Road in Lakemoor... [...]

A law enforcement task force arrested three masked suspects who were armed with guns inside Gurnee Mills mall in Gurnee, authorities said. The Illinois Attorney General’s Organized Retail Crimes Task Force recently conducted operations targeting retail crimes at suburban Chicago shopping malls. Read more...