No one charged after woman knifes man for kicking his dog

Around 3:30 p.m. on Feb. 27, police responded to the 1100 block of Elgin Ave. after someone called to report their neighbors were yelling about kicking a dog and that one had a knife. Police arrived to find several people screaming outside. Police asked a woman with her hands in her pockets to remove them, and she threw the knife to the ground. One woman told police she was standing on her porch when she saw a man walking his dog, then kick it repeatedly. The woman screamed at him to stop, and the man came to yell at her and her daughter. The woman said the man pushed her daughter, so her daughter pulled out a utility knife and cut the man. The man said one of the women started swiping her cane at him and the other waved a knife at him several times, cutting his arm. Police reported that the dog didn’t have any injuries and, from camera footage, couldn’t see who made physical contact first. No one was charged. 

Assisting police

Police were dispatched to the CTA Blue Line station around 7 p.m. on Feb. 24 for a woman who was unconscious and barely breathing. The woman was seated on the train with her head tilted back. Police reported that she had blue lips and was unresponsive to sternum rubs. The woman started breathing after two doses of Narcan, woke up and said she was fine. The Forest Park Fire Department took her to RUSH Oak Park Hospital…

Story continues

TRENDING NOW

LATEST LOCAL NEWS