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01.22.18: man fatally stabs woman, then leaps to death from chicago's Skyway Bridge. Toni Frazier, 29 • Curtis Bradley, 24 |
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06.20.17, chicagotribune.com, Police investigate possible link between man who jumped from Skyway bridge and woman later found slain. Chicago police are investigating whether the suicide of man who plunged from the Skyway bridge is connected to the stabbing death of a woman who lived on the same East Chatham block on the South Side. Curtis Bradley, 24, died after he apparently jumped into the Calumet River around 98th Street, after being involved in an accident around 3 p.m. Monday, according to police and fire officials. He was pulled from the water and pronounced dead at Advocate Trinity Hospital at 4:55 p.m. Bradley had lived in the 1000 block of East 80th Street. That's where Toni Frazier, 29, was found Monday afternoon. She was pronounced dead at 6:28 p.m. An autopsy Tuesday determined Frazier died of multiple sharp force injuries and her death was ruled a homicide, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. The primary cause of Bradley’s death was drowning, according to the medical examiner’s office. Multiple injuries from a car hitting a fixed object and a jump from height were listed as a secondary causes of his death, which was ruled a suicide. Police noted that she and Bradley were involved in a "relationship." "We are absolutely looking at a possible connection," chief police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said in a statement. "Detectives are still building background profiles of our victims and working through a potential timeline. "Police believe the two individuals had a relationship, but at this moment that is all we can say publicly," he said. Bradley has a long criminal history that includes convictions for illegal gun and narcotics convictions. At the time of his death, Bradley was freed on $75,000 bail for criminal charges of being an armed habitual criminal and being a convicted felon in possession of a handgun, Cook County court records show. The charges stem from an arrest on May 29 in which he was found carrying a black semi-automatic handgun, according to a law enforcement source. He most recently had a felony conviction in 2015 for failing to report an accident involving an injury and was sentenced to 5 years in prison and 2 years of mandatory supervised release. But court records show he was given 481 days of credit for time served in the Cook County Jail prior to his prison sentence. He was later paroled. He also had a felony gun conviction from 2012 and was sentenced to 3 years in prison, records show. He also had a conviction in a 2010 narcotics case and was sentenced to boot camp. Bradley was also convicted in 2016 on a misdemeanor charge of failing to register as a gun offender. He was served two days in police custody and was issued a $50 fine. |
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06.20.17: Man fatally shoots woman on Chicago's Skyway Bridge,
then kills himself. Lisa Fischer, 49 • Christopher M. Pena, 30 |
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06.20.17, chicagotribune.com, A woman jumped out of a car on the Chicago Skyway early Wednesday and was shot to death by the driver, who then killed himself as police approached, authorities said. Eastbound lanes of the expressway were closed for about five hours after the shooting, which occurred around 4:10 a.m. near the 87th Street toll gates. The man and the woman had been traveling in a maroon Chrysler and had just slowly passed through a toll gate when the woman got out and the man jumped out after her with a gun and shot her, according to a representative for the Skyway Concession Co., which manages the tollway. The car kept moving and crashed into a wall farther up the Skyway, police said. A Chicago police officer arrived and saw the man running back toward his car. The officer told him to stop, and the man shot himself in the head. Both the man and the woman were pronounced dead on the scene. Their identities have not been released. WGN-TV reported that the shooting was witnessed by a tollway worker who was taken to Trinity Hospital suffering from apparent shock. The Skyway was closed east of the Dan Ryan Expressway until around 9:30 a.m., police said. Check back for updates. 06.23.17, dailymail.co.uk, 'Help me': How woman whispered a plea for help to toll booth worker moments before her boyfriend murdered her and killed himself on Chicago highway. A woman who was shot dead in a murder-suicide by her boyfriend made a desperate, last-ditch plea for help from a toll booth worker just moments before she was gunned down on a Chicago freeway, police said on Friday. ‘Help me,’ 49-year-old Lisa Fisher said in a low voice as she was sitting in a car driven by her companion, 30-year-old Christopher Pena, on the eastbound side of the Chicago Skyway at the 87th Street toll booth early Wednesday morning, according to police. Fisher was hoping for help from a toll booth worker as Pena was looking for change to pay the fare, the Chicago Tribune reported. At around 4am, Pena began to roll his red Chrysler through the toll bridge. At that point, Fisher jumped out of the car and began to run, according to police. That’s when Pena jumped out of the car from the driver’s side seat. He allowed the car to continue rolling. Pena then took out a gun and aimed it at Fisher, firing at least one shot. Police said that Fisher fell to the ground after being hit with a bullet. Pena then stood over Fisher and fired more rounds into her body, according to investigators. The toll booth worker who witnessed the shooting began to scream into the intercom. Another employee at the toll bridge then alerted police. As Pena began to walk back toward his car, which had crashed into a wall a number of feet from the toll bridge, a police officer approached him. ‘What are you doing?’ the officer asked him. ‘Let me see your hands.’ That’s when Pena took his 9mm handgun, aimed it at his own head, and fired a fatal shot. Both Pena and Fisher were pronounced dead at the scene. Police later determined that they were a couple who lived separately in Chicago. A toll booth employee who witnessed the shooting was taken to hospital due to apparent shock. Police cordoned off the area where the Chrysler had crashed and blocked traffic east of the Dan Ryan Expressway while conducting an investigation. The lanes were reopened by 10am. |
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03.15.17, man who jumped from the buffalo skyway dies unknown |
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03.15.17, buffalonews.com, A 35-year old Lackawanna man who late Wednesday jumped from the top of the Skyway died Thursday morning in Erie County Medical Center, according to a Buffalo Police Department spokesman. The unidentified man, who had been listed in critical condition, was retrieved about 7:30 p.m. Wednesday from Lake Erie by the Buffalo Police Department Underwater Recovery Team, with assistance from the U.S. Coast Guard and Buffalo Fire Department. Buffalo police at the time described the incident as an apparent suicide attempt. Crisis Services offers a free 24-hour hotline for anyone experiencing suicidal thoughts or having mental health issues at (716) 834-3131.  |
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01.18.16: Woman dies after falling from Chicago's Skyway Bridge to river in apparent suicide. Karen Lubas, 54 |
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01.18.16, chicagotribune.com, By Carlos Sadovi A 54-year-old woman was pronounced dead Monday after she fell about 200 feet from the Skyway Bridge over the Calumet River in an apparent suicide, officials said. The incident spurred the closure of the northbound Chicago Skyway at Indianapolis Boulevard as police investigated, according to Chicago police. Police were called to the bridge about 12:55 p.m. after a vehicle was found abandoned on the bridge. After they discovered the unoccupied vehicle, police notified the U.S. Coast Guard at Calumet Harbor, said the Coast Guard's officer of the day, Chris Roggy. The Coast Guard's ice rescue team was dispatched, Roggy said. The bridge is about 200 feet above the surface of the water, which was frozen, Roggy said. Coast Guard officials retrieved the victim from the surface and transported her to the bank of the river, where Chicago Fire Department paramedics were waiting. The woman was identified as Karen Lubas of Whiting, Ind., according to the Cook County medical examiner's office. She was pronounced dead at the scene, according to the office.  |
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08.31.13: Monroe man stabs his own chest, crashes vehicle on bridge, jumps to his death. Shane Holey, 31, fell 125 feet from Toledo’s Glass City Skyway |
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09.01.13, toledoblade.com, A Monroe man died Saturday evening when he jumped from the Veterans’ Glass City Skyway after crashing a vehicle on the bridge, having been followed into Toledo by Monroe County Sheriff’s deputies. Shane Holey, 31, fell 125 feet to the ground near the Maumee River’s east bank between the Skyway and the parallel Craig Memorial Bridge and was pronounced dead at the scene, Toledo police said. According to the police report, Mr. Holey was reported to Monroe County authorities as a suicidal man with a knife, and a vehicle pursuit began after sheriff’s deputies contacted him. A Toledo police cruiser joined in the pursuit after Mr. Holey’s vehicle entered Toledo on Lewis Avenue, then proceeded east on Alexis Road to southbound I-75. After proceeding onto southbound I-280, police said, Mr. Holey attempted to drive the vehicle off the Skyway. But when it struck the bridge’s side wall it did not go over. He then jumped through the vehicle’s passenger window and over the side of the bridge, police said. He landed on rocks several yards from the Maumee’s East Toledo bank, police said. It is the first reported case of anyone jumping or falling from the landmark bridge since its 2007 opening. Dr. Maneesha Pandey, a deputy Lucas County coroner, said an autopsy will be performed early this week. 09.04.13, toledoblade.com, Coroner: Monroe man who jumped to death plunged knife in chest before chase, BLADE STAFF , A Monroe man who jumped to his death Saturday had pleaded with authorities to shoot him and plunged a knife into his chest before leading them on a chase that ended when he leaped from the Veterans’ Glass City Skyway, officials said today. Shane Holey, 31, fell 125 feet to the ground near the Maumee River’s east bank between the Skyway and the parallel Craig Memorial Bridge and was pronounced dead at the scene at 6:10 p.m., according to Lucas County Deputy Coroner Dr. Diane Scala-Barnett, who performed an autopsy Tuesday. The death was ruled a suicide and was caused by multiple blunt-force injuries suffered in the fall, with a clinical history of mental illness and a self-inflicted stab wound to the chest as contributing conditions, Dr. Scala-Barnett said. The incident was reported Saturday to Monroe County Sheriff's Office deputies as a suicidal man with a knife, according to a police report. Mr. Holey allegedly confronted law enforcement officers in the parking lot of a Kroger store in Monroe, pulled a hunting knife, and yelled to them to shoot him, Dr. Scala-Barnett said. He then plunged the knife into his chest and drove away, initiating a pursuit, she said. A Toledo police cruiser joined in the pursuit after Mr. Holey’s vehicle entered Toledo on Lewis Avenue, then proceeded east on Alexis Road to southbound I-75. After driving onto southbound I-280, police said, Mr. Holey attempted to drive the vehicle off the Skyway, causing it to strike the bridge’s side. When the vehicle did not go over the bridge, he jumped through the vehicle’s passenger window and over the side of the bridge, landing on rocks several yards from the Maumee’s East Toledo bank, according to police. It is the first reported case of anyone jumping or falling from the landmark bridge since its 2007 opening.  |
| 05.21.13: Goat Escapes Slaughterhouse Truck, Wreaks Havoc on Pulaski Skyway Bridge |
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05.21.13, gawker.com, A goat made a daring, potentially life-saving escape Tuesday morning from a truck authorities believe was headed to a
slaughterhouse. The goat, named Sky, fell or jumped while being driven across
the Pulaski Skyway bridge, where she ran wild during the rush hour commute. "The goat kept jumping over the divider and on top of cars," Jersey City Police Capt. Edgar Martinez told 1010 WINS. "It was cornered and captured with a rope and we were able to walk it to the vehicle where it was taken out of the Skyway." But the capture Captain Martinez describes above didn't take place until after Sky caused a four-car accident. It also took five New Jersey police officers nearly two hours to lasso Sky, who reportedly dragged her feet as she was taken to the rescue vehicle. Officials found a U.S. Department of Agriculture tag attached to the goat's ear, which led them to believe she was traveling by truck to a slaughterhouse. Sky was taken to the Liberty Humane Society in Jersey City. If she's not claimed, she'll be moved to a rescue farm.  |
| 11.03.12: Man jumps from the Buffalo Skyway in apparent suicide. |
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11.03.12, buffalonews.com, An unidentified man drove up to the crest of the Buffalo Skyway shortly before 2 p.m. Saturday, got out of his car and jumped into the water below in an apparent suicide. Buffalo Police and Coast Guard officers scrambled to find he victim, described only as a white male in his 20s, whose body was recovered from the City Ship Canal near RCR Yacht Club. Homicide detectives, who were summoned to the Coast Guard Station, said a suicide note was found in the car. |
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