Police were dispatched to the CTA Blue Line Forest Park station on Jan. 26 around 2 a.m. after a man there said he was stabbed in the leg and head with a knife. The Forest Park Fire Department arrived on scene before police, and the man refused medical assistance. Police saw a large laceration on the man’s lower leg and said an ambulance should take him to the hospital. A K9 security employee told police he saw the man bleeding on the train sometime between 1 and 1:30 a.m., and the man said the incident happened at the Kedzie-Homan stop an hour earlier. The Chicago Police Department’s 15th district was notified of the incident and the man’s location at Loyola Hospital, and the man was told to follow up with CPD about the incident.
Burglary from vehicle
On Jan. 23 around 7 a.m., police responded to the 100 block of Elgin Avenue. There, a man said he parked his car behind his apartment building, and when he went to it that morning, saw that the driver’s window was broken. He said he locked the car and that a drill was missing from the van.
Assist police or fire
On Jan. 24, police were dispatched to Little Teeth Big Smiles Children’s Dentistry on Harlem for a fire alarm that was later discovered to be a pipe leak. Police reported a large amount of water coming from the front entrance’s roof. The business owner showed police that the front of the office was flooded and said the pipe burst in the bathroom’s ceiling. The Forest Park Fire Department shut off the water and said the fire suppression system was damaged.
Death investigation
On Jan. 25, police received a request from a man to perform a welfare check on his mother, whom he hadn’t heard from in three days. Police forced entry into the woman’s unit and reported the smell of strong decomposition. They found her body face down on her bed, with no pants or underwear on. Police reported that bodily fluids were on the bed and in the bathroom. The son said his mother doesn’t have any notable medical history and has a husband whom she’d been separated from for at least a year. Officers weren’t able to contact the husband at the time of the police report. According to the police report, a Cook County medical examiner arrived and saw no signs of trauma or foul play, and the body was taken for an autopsy.
Criminal trespass to vehicle
On Jan. 25, police received a complaint from a man who captured Ring camera footage of an unknown subject unsuccessfully attempting to open car doors in the 600 block alley of Hannah and Thomas. Owners of the cars later told police they wanted to file complaints. Police followed the suspect’s footprints in freshly fallen snow and saw a suspect matching the description jump over a fence in the 500 block of Beloit. Backup officers set up a perimeter around the area with the help of River Forest police, and the man was placed into custody. The complainant also filed a complaint for a car burglary earlier in the month, when another Ring camera video shows the same man in his car. The man was charged with two counts of criminal trespassing to a vehicle.
Leaving the scene
Police were dispatched to the 1200 block of Harlem around 6:30 p.m. on Jan. 27 for a hit and run, where a car struck a light pole that fell and was sparking before driving away. About an hour after the accident, a man called the police to report it. He said he was turning onto the street when his car hit a patch of ice, causing him to hit the light pole. He was charged with improper lane usage and leaving the scene of a property damage accident.
These items were obtained from Forest Park Police Department reports dated Jan. 20 through Jan. 29 and represent a portion of the incidents to which police responded. Anyone named in these reports has only been charged with a crime and cases have not yet been adjudicated. We report the race of a suspect only when a serious crime has been committed, the suspect is still at large, and police have provided us with a detailed physical description of the suspect as they seek the public’s help in making an arrest.
