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Thursday, October 19, 2023

Medical examiner: Man who was beaten to death was a homicide victim

A man who died after being badly beaten on the Magnificent Mile this summer is a homicide victim, the Cook County medical examiner’s office has determined. 

We first told you about the case in August, revealing that Chicago police officers stopped the suspected killer within minutes of the attack but decided to let him go and then failed to file a report documenting the crime for days.

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Please forgive me for my tendencies to oversimplify things, but I always kinda figured anybody who was beaten to death would be a homicide victim no matter if the proper paperwork was filled out or not.


11 comments:

  1. yeah, that does seem really stupid even for cops. must be one of the magic people, I guess
    seen a bit of that back in philly. that is when I knew I had to get out of there. dave in pa.

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  2. It is possible the decedent had something on Killary and he simply committed suicide by beating himself to death. It happens...

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  3. In Chicago. Probably a couple of MAGA supporters who mistook the dude for Jessie Smollett

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  4. No, because it's Chicago.
    The M. E. there ruled that a badly decomposed body found wired to a chair in an abandoned factory, with most of its bones broken with a pipe found near the body, had died from "unknown circumstances" and therefore was not reported as a homicide. (From Second City Cop blog, several years ago)
    John in Indy

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  5. What a stupid time to be alive!
    MartyB

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  6. Logic would say someone beaten to death would be a homicide victim
    Unfortunately logic is in short supply these days
    JD

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  7. This is how they keep the crime rate down. Dont report it.

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  8. So what happened to the suspect that the police were “ well acquainted with”….was this a mafia beat down for gambling debts…. Or some other police corruption tolerance

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  9. It's all .. the .. friggin .. required .. paperwork for everything damn thing we do that really screws this country up. Ever had something held up because The Computer had something wrong about you but it was your job to work on getting it fixed - with more paperwork?

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  10. Homicide: the killing of one human being by another.
    Murder is a homicide, but, a homicide is not always murder.

    Evil Franklin

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