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Attorney: Irish Beating Victim Did Not Catch ‘Superbug’
CHICAGO (CBS) — She survived a brutal attack here in Chicago, then went home to Northern Ireland to recover. This city never stopped caring about Natasha McShane. So when a published report surfaced...
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Injured Boy’s Parents Sue Baseball Bat Maker
CHICAGO (STMW) – A couple has sued the maker of the metal bat, after their son suffered a brain injury from being struck by a baseball hit off one of the bats. The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in...
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Man Charged With Killing Aunt On Christmas
Updated: 12/27/10 2:45 p.m. WILMETTE, Ill. (CBS) – A 24-year-old Wilmette man stands charged with the murder of his aunt in her home on Christmas Day, hours after he had bonded out of jail on another...
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Man Pleads Not Guilty To Beating Aunt To Death
SKOKIE (CBS) – A Wilmette man pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges alleging he beat his aunt to death with a baseball bat on Christmas Day. Anthony Rapoport, 24, was arraigned before Cook County...
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Jailed Man Accused In Bucktown Beating Hit With Pot-Smuggling Charge
CHICAGO (CBS) — A jailed Chicago man awaiting trial for the notorious 2010 baseball bat attack on two women in Bucktown faces additional charges that he conspired with his girlfriend to smuggle...
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Beating Victim From Northern Ireland Struggles 2 Years Later
(CBS) — A young woman from Northern Ireland who was brutally beaten in a Chicago robbery is still struggling two years later. As WBBM Newsradio’s Regine Schlesinger reports, this coming Monday will...
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Chicago Man Arrested In Ariz. Death Of Ex-Wife’s Boyfriend
PHOENIX (CBS/AP) – Phoenix police say they’ve arrested a Chicago man in the baseball bat killing of his ex-wife’s boyfriend. Sgt. Steve Martos says 29-year-old David Walker flew to Phoenix and arrived...
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One Charged In Armed Attack; Store Owner Fought Off Offender With Bat
Updated 04/11/13 – 6:08 p.m. CHICAGO (CBS) – Police have arrested one of two offenders involved in an armed robbery and shooting at a store in which the owners fought off the attackers with a baseball...
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Beating Victim Pleads For Help Finding Suspect
(CBS) – He was beaten so severely with a bat he went into a coma. Now, for the first time, that victim is speaking out about what happened and the search for suspect, who is still out there. CBS 2’s...
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NW Side Store Owner Beaten With Bat By Man Wanting 3XL Tank Tops
CHICAGO (STMW) — The owner of a Northwest Side store was beaten with a baseball bat Tuesday morning by a potential customer upset the store did not have tank tops in his size. The man walked into the...
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Cop Hospitalized After Being Attacked With Baseball Bat
CHICAGO (CBS) –A Chicago Police Officer is in the hospital after he was attacked with a baseball bat. That officer was trying to break up a fight when he was hit in the head. Members of the Chicago...
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Man Charged With Beating Cop With Baseball Bat
CHICAGO (STMW) – A 29-year-old man accused of beating a Chicago Police officer in the head with a baseball bat last weekend was charged with attempted murder, police announced Wednesday morning. Tythia...
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Trial To Begin In 2010 Baseball Bat Beating In Bucktown
Natasha McShane, 24, was brutally beaten with a baseball bat on North Damen Avenue in April 2010. (Credit: CBS) CHICAGO (STMW) – Natasha McShane won’t face the man accused of cracking her skull with a...
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Jury Selected For Trial In 2010 Bucktown Baseball Bat Beating
CHICAGO (CBS) – The jury was selected Tuesday in the trial of the man charged with beating two women with a baseball bat in Bucktown in 2010, leaving one of them with severe brain damage. Natasha...
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Baseball Bat Beating Victim Describes Attack
Stacy Jurich (left) and Natasha McShane were beaten with a bat in the Bucktown neighborhood in 2010. UPDATED: 10/16/2013 6:05 p.m. CHICAGO (CBS/AP) — The trial of a man accused of beating two women...
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Jury In Bucktown Bat Beating Case Hears Suspect’s Calls From Jail
CHICAGO (STMW) – The man on the other end of the phone told Heriberto Viramontes he was being made out to be a “monster.” In the months after the brutal Bucktown neigborhood attack on Natasha McShane...
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Closing Arguments Set For Thursday In Bucktown Bat Attack Trial
CHICAGO (CBS) — Closing arguments are set for Thursday in the trial of the man accused of the baseball bat beating of two young women in Bucktown in 2010 The attorneys defending Heriberto Viramontes...
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Jury Convicts Defendant In Baseball-Bat Attack Trial
CHICAGO (CBS) — A 34-year-old Chicago man has been found guilty in the 2010 baseball-bat attack on two women during a robbery in Bucktown. Heriberto Viramontes faces up to more than 100 years in prison...
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Cubs Fan Hospitalized After Being Struck By Flying Bat At Wrigley
CHICAGO (STMW) — A Cubs fan was hospitalized after he was struck by a bat during Monday night’s ballgame at Wrigley Field. The bat “inadvertently flew into the stands” during the 7th inning and struck...
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Man Convicted Of 2013 Baseball Bat Attack On Chicago Cop
CHICAGO (STMW) — A man was convicted Tuesday of using a baseball bat to beat a police officer who tried to stop him from beating a woman two years ago in the South Side West Englewood neighborhood....
View ArticleSt. Charles Woman Beat Sleeping Husband With Baseball Bat: Police
(STMW) — A west suburban woman is facing several charges after she attacked her sleeping husband with a baseball bat early Sunday in their St. Charles home. Donna J. Black, 58, was charged with...
View ArticleMan Charged With Beating Another Man To Death With Baseball Bat In Albany Park
CHICAGO (CBS) — A man stood charged with murder Wednesday, after police said he beat another man in the head and face with a baseball bat in Albany Park. Carl Noffz, 23, was arrested at 6:07 a.m....
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