Crime Stories from May 16, 2022
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Big cross-border tunnel found linking Tijuana, San Diego
May 17, 2022 7:00 AM - Authorities have announced the discovery of a major drug smuggling tunnel - running about the length of a six football fields - from Mexico to a warehouse in an industrial area in the U.S. The cross-border tunnel from Tijuana to the San Diego area was built in one of the most fortified stretches of the border, illustrating the limitations of border walls
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Man charged with murder in gang-related shooting of North Chicago teenMay 16, 2022 11:43 PM - Authorities have released the name of a 14-year-old boy shot and killed Sunday afternoon in what they now are characterizing as a gang-related attack at the Citgo at the corner of 10th and Jackson Street in North Chicago.
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Violent death in America stalks ordinary walks of daily life
May 17, 2022 7:00 AM - Americans are absorbing the aftermath of a weekend of violence that raked cities across the country
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Georgia man who killed girl has execution temporarily stayed
May 16, 2022 10:01 PM - A judge has temporarily delayed the execution of a Georgia man who was scheduled to die Tuesday for killing 8-year-old girl 46 years ago
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Lightfoot imposes earlier city curfew on weekends
May 16, 2022 8:15 PM - Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Monday rolled back Chicago's weekend curfew -- from 11 p.m. to 10 p.m. -- in a desperate attempt to stop an outbreak of youth violence downtown that culminated in the fatal weekend shooting of a 16-year-old boy in Millennium Park.
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Curfew times throughout suburbs largely identicalMay 16, 2022 6:53 PM - Suburban curfew laws for minors generally mirror one another with a few exceptions in some of the Chicago area's largest towns.
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Buffalo shooting latest example of targeted racial violence
May 16, 2022 5:03 PM - The shooting at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, is the latest example of something that's been part of U.S. history since the beginning: targeted racial violence
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Des Plaines man pointed gun at relative, police sayMay 16, 2022 4:23 PM - A Des Plaines man was arrested Saturday night after police say he pointed a gun at a relative during an argument.
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Oregon sued over failure to provide public defenders
May 16, 2022 3:59 PM - Criminal defendants in Oregon who have gone without public defenders for weeks have filed a lawsuit against the state claiming a violation of their constitutional rights
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Police: Buffalo gunman aimed to keep killing if he got away
May 16, 2022 2:40 PM - The white gunman accused of massacring 10 Black people in a racist rampage at a Buffalo supermarket planned to keep killing if he had escaped the scene, the police commissioner said Monday, as the possibility of federal hate crime or domestic terror charges loomed.
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