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LAUREN CROSS , 219-314-8244 GARY, Indiana — Fresh off his escape from a prisoner transport van Dec. 14, murder suspect Leon Taylor desperately ran into a nearby home and told the woman inside he needed to use her cellphone. "She didn't know that he had escaped. She was alarmed when she saw the handcuffs, but she was also scared. He was looking for a ride out of there," said Cmdr. Michael Stewart, head of investigations for the Lake County Sheriff's Department. One step behind him Taylor's escape — caught on video — from a security van in a McDonald's drive-thru in G...

LAUREN CROSS , 219-314-8244 GARY, Indiana — Fresh off his escape from a prisoner transport van Dec. 14, murder suspect Leon Taylor desperately ran into a nearby home and told the woman inside he needed to use her cellphone. "She didn't know that he had escaped. She was alarmed when she saw the handcuffs, but she was also scared. He was looking for a ride out of there," said Cmdr. Michael Stewart, head of investigations for the Lake County Sheriff's Department. One step behind him Taylor's escape — caught on video — from a security van in a McDonald's drive-thru in G...

Reward offered for information in fatal shooting near hospital CHICAGO — Chicago anti-violence activists are offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction in the fatal shooting of a man found dead on Christmas Eve near a hospital. The reward announced Tuesday seeks tips in the killing of Cyle Hemphill, 25. An autopsy by the Cook County medical examiner’s office found that Hemphill, who lived in Chicago’s Beverly neighborhood, died from several gunshot wounds. His body was found Dec. 24 slumped in the front passenger seat of a car parked outside a...

EAST CHICAGO — The murder suspect who escaped a private security firm's transport van two weeks ago as the driver waited in a McDonald's drive-thru was taken into custody this morning, Lake County Sheriff Oscar Martinez said.  Members of the Lake County Sheriff’s Department Tactical Unit arrested Leon Taylor in the 4900 block of Indianapolis Boulevard in East Chicago after a brief foot chase, Martinez said.  Officers were in East Chicago on Wednesday morning searching for Taylor, 22, and took him into custody about 8:40 a.m. "Our officers worked around the clock over the Ch...

GARY, Ind. (WLS) -- A murder suspect who escaped while being transported in Gary earlier this month was taken back into custody Wednesday morning, the Lake County (Ind.) sheriff said. Leon Taylor, 22, escaped from a private transport van on December 14 about 3 p.m. at a McDonalds around 35th and Grant streets in Gary while being extradited from Texas, the Lake County, authorities said. Taylor was arrested by the Lake County Sheriff's Department Tactical Unit at about 8:40 a.m. Wednesday in the 4900-block of Indianapolis Boulevard in East Chicago after a foot chase, authorities said. "Our off...