Prosecutors this week charged a 43-year-old man with attacking or trying to attack three strangers with a knife during a rampage in Old Town two months ago.
But what happened in the months and weeks leading up to that incident is an increasingly familiar Chicago story: Repeated arrests. Repeated violations. Repeated warnings. And repeated releases by judges who kept putting him back on the street.
A review of Chicago Police Department reports and court records shows how often Tyshaun Stampley — usually arrested as Raeshaun or Rashaun Stampley — cycled in and out of custody before the Old Town attacks. Judges saw missed court dates, new arrests, and multiple violations of pretrial release conditions. Yet each time, he was allowed out, although he was often supposed to be on electronic monitoring, even after he failed to comply with that program…