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A defense attorney for a man facing a murder charge in connection with a Bronzeville shooting told a Cook County judge Thursday the killing was done in self-defense.
Prosecutors disagreed, saying 22-year-old Justen Jackson came up behind the victim, Marki Alsup, and shot him in the head.
“I don’t see how that could be construed as self-defense,” Assistant State’s Attorney James Murphy told Judge Susana Ortiz at the hearing.
Shortly before the shooting, Jackson’s uncle called him to Alsup’s girlfriend’s birthday party, prosecutors said.
Inside, Jackson was greeted by Alsup’s girlfriend, though she had not invited him, and she introduced him to Alsup, prosecutors said. The girlfriend said the two did not appear to know each other.
Making Microwaves Safer For Children
New journal article recounts Rush pediatricians campaign to protect children from severe burns
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CHICAGO, Jan. 20, 2021 /PRNewswire/ A 15-year research and advocacy effort to make microwave ovens safer has led to a change in national manufacturing standards that will make microwaves more difficult for young children to open, protecting them from the severe microwave-related burns that scar hundreds of kids under 5 years old in the United States each year. Researchers at Rush University Medical Center and other leaders of the campaign, who worked diligently to document the frequency and severity of these injuries and young children s vulnerability to them, published the results of their efforts in
A 15-year research and advocacy effort to make microwave ovens safer has led to a change in national manufacturing standards that will make microwaves more difficult for young children to open, protecting them from the severe microwave-related burns that scar hundreds of kids under 5 years old in the United States each year.