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Almost 200 alligators call Critchlow Alligator Sanctuary home. The smallest are only a foot or two long but the largest, named Medusa, is 11 feet long and is expected to keep growing. The sanctuary takes in around 20 to 30 new alligators each year. Many of those are pets from people who are unable or unwilling to care for growing gators, but some are captured by animal control officers from around the Midwest and brought to the sanctuary.
The day before that shooting, on March 14, an on-duty sergeant was shot outside the Gresham District Police Station, 7808 S. Halsted St., on the South Side. That sergeant suffered a graze wound to his chin, and there’s been no word of any arrests in that case.
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The man was described as Black, in his mid-20s to early 30s, with short black hair and facial hair. He is also estimated to be about 5-foot-10 to 6-foot-2 tall and weigh 180 to 200 pounds. Photos released by police show a man wearing dark pants and a light-colored long-sleeved shirt or sweatshirt with one large dark stripe on the midriff and just below the shoulder on both sleeves.
Prosecutors said prior to the shooting, the man who was critically wounded in the shooting was with a tow truck driver, 32-year-old Nicholas Athans, who was his employer, following a work shift on Jan. 16. Athans, a Brookfield man, was charged earlier this year with attempted first-degree murder and aggravated battery through discharge of a firearm in connection with the shooting, court records show.
On May 11, 2016, Cynthia Kroft was driving to her mom’s after leaving her 3-to-11 shift at a Chesterton, Indiana, hospital where she worked as an ICU nurse, and was stopped at a light near Gateway Boulevard and State Road 49 in Chesterton, said the Krofts’ lawyer, Kenneth Allen.
The 35-year-old man exited a CTA Blue Line train shortly before 2:30 a.m. in the 200 block of South Dearborn Street in the Loop neighborhood and asked for water from a person waiting on the CTA platform, police said in a media notification. A witness noticed the man had been stabbed several times in the left arm, and called 911, police said.
The three gunshot victims were reported about 9:50 a.m. in the first block of West Grand Avenue, according to Chicago police and the Chicago Fire Department. Police spokesman Sally Bown said “apparently they were all shooting at each other,” citing preliminary information.
The numbers tell only part of the story, but they are staggering. In the state’s long-term care facilities, 25,445 COVID-19 cases and 3,498 deaths were recorded in Cook County. DuPage County had 5,355 cases and 743 deaths, and Lake County had 4,160 cases and 558 deaths, according to the Illinois Department of Public Health.
A 26-year-old man was shot in the head, and was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center where he was pronounced dead. A 25-year-old man suffered a wound to the shoulder, and was taken in fair condition to the same hospital. A 23-year-old man was shot twice in the right arm, and was taken in critical condition to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn. A 21-year-old man was shot in the head, and was taken in critical condition to the University of Chicago. Another 21-year-old man suffered a wound to the shoulder, and was taken in fair condition to Advocate Christ in Oak Lawn. Police later said two people died in the Gresham shooting but did not immediately have information on who was the second deceased victim.