Free by a dangerous mistake. A native of gary indiana convicted of murder in 2002 a crime committed in indianapolis picked up in 2002 and had been serving his time in that state until being shipped here already on two drug charges. They were dismissed and when they were instead of being returned to indiana to serve the rest of his 60 your sentence for murder cook county officials simply when he walked away from the cook county jail. Six months away. His earliest possible release date from prison is 2029, i cannot answer why he was released in the chicago area i dont know all i know is that he was released from jail without being returned to indiana if they do spot him contact your nearest Law Enforcement agency do not approach him. If you see this guy pick up the phone and dial 911. He has a very distinctive tattoo on the right side of his neck that says nicole officials are at a loss as to how this could happen right now theyre not telling us much. They launched an investigation into how this happened live at the cook county lockup. Chicago is deploying 300 officers to the streets this comes as januarys homicide rate tops 40 we have more on this Crime Fighting tactic. They have redeployed more than 1000 officers. He says it is just a political ploy while crime researchers say that theres evidence that the crime is one of many that can be made to reduce violence over time. All sides agree that our homicide rate is tragic and a natural embarrassment. In response the number of Chicago Police officers on patrol beginning this weekend cox currently on do you will be reassigned to the beat it includes 60 officers into a total of 200 will be working the streets by the end of march. This is continuing that effort and its going to continue here. Civilians will be taking over the officers administrative duty after the most violent start to the year in more than one decade. This years homicide rate is 20 higher than last year in which 506 were killed. Im not going to ask the taxpayers for Additional Resources until the entire team have called for the geography he calls the plan policing be a press confervia press conference. You were going to hold 200 people that are very skilled out of their job and put civilians went really they may have no clue. Theyre doing really a lot of sensible things its time to do things that makes sense from an evidence based perspective. He says that strict gun laws here are not too helpful if they are different across state lines and crimes are not prosecuted severely. All of the things we do it is to say that this is a really high priority in Law Enforcement. Pendleton was in exactly the right place at exactly the right time and thats why her murder is so to speak, unacceptable. A fund raiser taken place tonight for the family of the 15 yearold who has become the National Symbol of gun violence in chicago there is a reward for the killer now. As you mentioned pendletons death has really got the attention of the entire nation. They are grieving it was a fundraiser for the entire pendleton family. It really hurt me. I could take back to the time that i grew up it is something that needs to stop. The tragic loss of such a vibrant life has dealt not only the pendleton family but their friends of course from western illinois univ. They came here for support tonight to help pitch in for a grieving family caught in the middle of gun violence plaguing our city. Tonight one familys loss and the warmth of a hog from some dear friends. My daughter touched so many people. We all went to school together. There people but i havent heard from in years, over 20 years. A child that has to go through the trauma mentally and physically. You need to take responsibility. And if anyone knows who this person is they should turn them in. Her 17 yearold son was near her when she was killed on tuesday, she says that she wants to see the person stand up and on up for what he has done. Now up to 24,000 in all. Theyre hoping that the money will make a difference in finding the killer. 300 people without jobs after an eight alarm fire its factory in burlington wisconsin one of the towns biggest employers the mayor volleying to help rebuild after yesterdays fire the cause is still under investigation. More than 40 vehicles were involved in a pile up on i 70 near indianapolis one of the tractor trailers was transporting elephants. At least 12 people were injured, two of them seriously it looks like maybe freezing snow caused a major part of this pile up. Subzero temperatures cutting through the area as we speak it was 60 degrees above zero just a few days ago. Tom skilling is in the Weather Center with more on this deepfreeze we are 60 degrees colder in parts of the area then we were on tuesday temperatures in the suburbs down to 1 above 0 we have not only cold weather on the way tonight but we have snow coming. Starting tomorrow night and over the weekend will have a forecast on how long this snow sticks around. Tearful and miserably shaken and why video gambling laws left these people in the cold. Brutally beaten and left in the cold to die. Nine years ago tonight a wisconsin woman was in the midst of a horrifying experience she found herself fighting to live after being stuffed inside of a garbage can she was bleeding, freezing and left to die but almost one decade later her story of survival is beginning to inspire this attack happened and kidnapping on a saturday morning she was going to pick up her two little girls and she walked into a set up, a warning that this story contains violent and graphic content. On january 31st of 2000. The day of our divorce when we walked out of the court room he was crying and i remember looking at him thinking why is he crying . He hates me he is so horrible to me and i remember thinking you were going to regret this. She describes the exmarine and that she married as a longtime friend, funloving, family oriented but he was also controlling the first time that he hair was on their honeymoon. A few times. And i will never forget the first thing he said was you were bought and paid for. Her toddler let her know that it was time to go. I looked at her and i thought this is not what i want for my kids. She went to women shelter and filed for divorce and remarriage, five years went by and she moved on the david larsen did not. The girls are hiding they want you to come in and find them. When i walked in on was hit on the head with a baseball bat and he was saying things like you always said i was abusing you. The first blow to her head was just the beginning of a 26 hour nightmare. Duct tape, a baseball bat drifting in and out of consciousness she remembers him swinging the wooden bat 1520 times he duck taped her hands feet into mouth and let the torture began. Hes letting me in this garbage can headfirst i wiggled around so i went and feetfirst so that probably saved my life right there. She rolled the plastic container into the yard and started filling it with snow as he loaded her into the truck bed and went to get the girls inside teri told herself i am going to die today. But larsen made a critical mistake terry still has her cellphone. The dispatcher said are you having trouble breathing . I just kept saying the address. By the time i heard this quad sirens we were starting to move and they were going to his house and we were moving down the alley. Police found signs of struggle and a neighbor saw the flashing lights and called terris house they told her new husband nick that they saw larsen towaway per camry nick knew right away that she was in trouble the phone rang again this time it was teri. It was a very difficult phone call. I thought that would be the last time i talked to her alive. They learned the night before the she was pregnant and now she was in the back of a moving pickup truck at the mercy of her ex husband worried about her girls they were in the trucks cab with their mother in the back as he drove them to a baby sitter. They will turn into his spacey and cover the can with heavy boxes at that point she says houdini could have broken free. I am 5 ft. 8 i am in this garbage can and i am barefoot and remember my seat being so freezing and i was trying to get my hands to cut my feet and i could get my hands down there, i couldnt reach so i had to just sit there and there was nothing i could do. And amber a lawyer for the girls was issued in wisconsin and illinois. They are arrested him at work and in his wallet discovered a Business Card for a storage locker not in his home state of wisconsin but illinois, one call from detectives told them that larsen had been there the day before. Her skull was crushed and her eyes were swollen shut suffering from severe frostbite and her body temperature had dropped to lifethreatening 74 degrees doctors said that she had one hour left to live. 11 months later on their wedding anniversary they talked to reporters. Dying is not an option because my girls need me. I felt great relief when i heard the paramedics. She has a wonderful spirit and she will recover. She has lost all of her toes, unable to walk but was all smiles. I thought thank god i am here for my kids, thank god my kids are ok. The girls are in high school and they have a five yearold son. Since it happened so early in our marriage we were able to have a normal marriage but we have grown together finding a new normal in our lives. She believes that she has saved lives and made others leave happier lives. I have people who recognize who i am some people will cry or told me and i tell them dont cry now things are great now. David larsen is serving a life prison sentence and a host teri over 3 million, she knows she will never see that money but she leaves a message you can do this to somebody and not pay she said larsen has never showed any remorse and he hasnt asked for it you cannot forgive someone if they dont ask for forgiveness she said she is certain that given the opportunity larsen would try to killer again. An oil company in mexico city killed more than one dozen people. Are youwhere you are right or wrong . 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This is the winters second coldest night subzero temperatures away from the immediate wake into down timedowntown. Still advisorys even in the central appalachians we are 13 hours into what will be a 37 hour consecutive draft of subzero wind chills. The win shells are abominable. We could have 20 below zero wind chills tomorrow morning. It gives you an idea of where the temperatures are going. These are current temperatures and here is how much they are below with we are approaching 60 degrees colder in many locations that river for late april level one that we have on tuesday the heart of the cold will still lift out. Time to time over the weekend will be down to 20 below over the weekend. Tomorrow night the temperatures rise above freezing i just want to show you a wider picture of what the wind chills will be like to our morning and tomorrow afternoon this cold air is pretty widespread. 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All round since 1890 the club is home to a downstairs bar sponsors of little league, fundraisers one of about 20 social clubs in or aurora alone i would say its probably about 30 percent of what we need to survive. In august today along with everyone else waiting for the illinois gaming board which began overseeing them to ok bringing them back in. There is a glitch that dates back to springfield when the legislation was written social clubs were not specifically included, military clubs were. Right now the gaming board interpret that to me no machines. Theres no reason that three guys could get a license go into a garage and apply for a machine and call it a social club, well maybe they could but they havent been in business for 110 years so give us a break its affecting all of us. Hundreds of them what legislators say about it. Knowing the impact that they have on her district. In the meantime they have to find a way to stay afloat bacon manager for about a month and a half they are optimistic that something will eventually get done. I can tell you that it didnt come up today in springfield. The gaming board could take up this issue once again. We generate about 30 percent of the revenue to keep these places open through the use these video game machines. A former Schaumburg Police officer brave enough to allegedly still cash in drugs from drug dealers. The father of five kids lived a secret life. For 1314 years this man was keeping a mistress secret from his daughter and his wife and not only that he was dealing cash from drug dealers and selling drugs. A total of seven cases were connected prosecutors expect 15 to be dropped still ahead. That would be beyonce is live response to criticism of her lipsynching the National Anthem at the inauguration. [ indistinct shouting ] [ indistinct shouting ] [ male announcer ] time and sales data. Splitsecond stats. 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