Illinois police capture 'Slender Man' attacker
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Illinois State Police car struck by hit-and-run driver on I-94
A hit-and-run driver crashed into an Illinois State Police vehicle Tuesday morning on Interstate 94 on Chicago's South Side.
Police in Illinois said Morgan Geyser gave a fake name and said she didn't want to tell officers her name because she had "done something really bad."
Deputies acted on a tip from Pontiac, Illinois, where police had linked two vehicles to multiple ATM burglaries. License plate cameras later spotted the cars in Bloomington. When deputies pulled them over, they found laptops, cords, masks, license plates, and $3,500 in cash.
Two people who were killed in a shooting inside a restaurant in Aurora, Illinois, over the weekend were identified on Tuesday evening. Police responded to the shooting Saturday just after 9 p.m. at the Two Brothers Roundhouse, at 205 N. Broadway. Three people were found inside with gunshot wounds.
In 2014, when Geyser was 12, she stabbed another 12-year-old friend, Payton Leutner, nearly to death. She and the other suspect, Anissa Weier, told police they stabbed Leutner to please the fictional online character, Slender Man.
Madison police say Geyser, now 23, removed her GPS monitoring bracelet and left her group home in Madison Saturday night. She was placed in the group home by the Department of Health Services (DHS) following a Waukesha County judge's decision to allow her conditional release from mental health treatment earlier this year.
A man from St. Charles, Illinois, has been charged with secretly recording video up a woman's skirt at a store in Geneva, and police said investigators have uncovered hundreds more similar videos from the past eight years.
The Vandalia community gathered for an emotional vigil remembering 14-year-old Kylie Toberman, as a relative faces murder and sexual assault charges.
In 2014, when Geyser was 12, she stabbed another 12-year-old friend, Payton Leutner, nearly to death. She and the other suspect, Anissa Weier, told police they stabbed Leutner to please the fictional online character, Slender Man.