Thursday, December 26, 2013

Chicago: “White” Man, 18, Charged in Decapitation Slaying on Northwest Side

Re-posted by Nicholas Stix

Thanks for the sendalong to reader-researcher “W,” who writes,
This just in! Maybe it was a lover’s spat. In any event, this gets rated as another “white” murder.
 

Man, 18, charged in

decapitation slaying

on Northwest Side


[Original headline, based on URL: Chicago Police: Teen in Custody After Man Found Decapitated in Northwest Side Apartment.]

A teenager may face charges in the decapitation death of a man on the Northwest Side. The 41-year-old victim was found early Christmas morning in his basement apartment in the 2500 block of North Kildare Avenue.
By Adam Sege and Bonnie Miller Rubin
December 26, 2013, 2:35 p.m. CST
Chicago Tribune

Murder charges have been filed in the decapitation death of a man in an apartment in the Belmont Gardens neighborhood on the Northwest Side.


 
Alexis Valdez charged with first degree murder
Alexis Valdez, 18, is charged with first-degree murder
 

Map: Track homicides in Chicago
Map: Track homicides in Chicago
 

Police block the street in the 2500 block of North Kildare Avenue after a man's decapitated body was found in a basement apartment early this morning.
Police block the street in the 2500 block of North Kildare Avenue after a man's decapitated body was found in a basement apartment early this morning.

Police discovered the grisly scene around 2:05 a.m. Christmas Day in the 2500 block of North Kildare Avenue, police said.  Responding officers found a decapitated body in a basement apartment, police said. The victim was 41 but his name has not been released.

Valdez was taken into custody outside the building "without incident," police said. Officers recovered a knife.

The relationship between the 18-year-old and the man found dead was not known. Police listed Valdez's address as the 5000 block of West Drummond Place in Chicago, about a mile and a half from where the body was found.

Windows on the basement apartment on North Kildare were boarded up hours after the discovery, and drops of blood were visible by the passenger side of a black pickup truck parked in front of the apartment building.

asege@tribune.com | Twitter: @AdamSege

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

An update on the previous email I sent on the Knockout game "hate crime". This latest MSN headline is upping the ante, it has "hate crime" attached to the headline and full color picture of the white male perp (something they can be very coy about when the perps are black). It's clear the media is going to make a white man the "face" of Knockout game. Regardless that 95% of the perpetrators of this violence are black on whites. That figure is purely a subjective estimate but I have absolutely no doubt it's roughly accurate. The media was just waiting for a white man to do something like this so it felt confident in rising up in self righteous racial posturing. Predictable and disgusting.
The only flicker of hope in this absurdity is reading the comments fields under the headlines, it's clear that many in the general public are not fooled and are calling the media out in their hypocrisy. Jerry

http://news.msn.com/crime-justice/knockout-game-attack-leads-to-hate-crime-charge?