Regional Police Report: Man Charged in Baby's Death and More

A couple who once lived in St. Charles, Illinois, are being held by authorities after their 5-month-old son was found dead.

The couple's disappearance sparked a search in Texas where they had been living. The couple and their older son eventually were found in Michigan and the baby, Jackson, was found in a New Mexico desert.

Jeffrey Farrey, 22, was arrested Thursday, the El Paso Times reports. He is charged with injury to a child by omission. He is being held in the El Paso County Jail in lieu of $1.5 million bail.

Jenna Farrey, 20, formerly of St. Charles, waived extradition Wednesday, according to the Times. She was arrested for probation violation in Michigan on at the request of Texas authorities.

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Naperville

Man Charged in Lincoln Square Killing

A 26-year-old Naperville man has been charged in the fatal shooting of another man in the parking lot of the Lincoln Square McDonald's on Monday evening, the Chicago Tribune reports.

Cordero H. Sims is due in court later in the day Friday on a charge of first-degree murder for killing 25-year-old Ibrinzon Gonzalez in a car in the parking lot, the Tribune article states.

Gonzalez was shot in the head in the lot, near the intersection of Lincoln and Western, and pronounced dead at the scene, CBS reports.

Wheaton

$1 Million Bail for Two of Three Teens Charged in Murder 

A DuPage County judge on Wednesday set $1 million bail for two of three teenagers accused of killing a Wheaton man with his own knife after a confrontation at a party late Saturday or early Sunday, the Chicago Tribune reports.

Jonathan Jimenez, 19, of Aurora, whose bail was set at $1 million, is charged along with Alejandro Martinez, 17, and Anthony Rios, 18, both of West Chicago, with first-degree murder in the death of Thomas Tecuatl, 22, of Wheaton.

Judge Elizabeth Sexton set Martinez’s bail at $800,000 during the same hearing early Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2013.

Jimenez is charged with first-degree murder intending to cause death or great bodily harm, first-degree murder-forcible felony, and mob action-inflicting injury by violence, according to DuPage County Jail records.

Martinez and Rios are each charged with first-degree murder intending to cause death or great bodily harm, and mob action-inflicting injury by violence, according to DuPage County Jail records.

Later Wednesday, Rios’s bail was set at $1 million, according to a release from from the DuPage County State's Attorney's Office.

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Evanston

Police ID Suspect in Murder

One year after Justin Murray, 19, was shot and killed in Evanston, police say they have identified at least one suspect and are closer to solving the murder. 

Police believe that Blake Ross, 20, an Evanston resident who was shot and killed in Chicago this May, was at least partly responsible for Murray’s murder, according to Evanston Police Cmdr. Jason Parrott. Based on interviews with community members, police also believe there was at least one other person involved in the murder, and they think they know who that person is, according to Parrott.

There is not enough evidence at this point, however, to charge anyone in Murray’s murder, Parrott said, and police may “clear” the case on Blake Ross—in other words, they may consider it solved because an offender has been identified. That hasn’t happened, yet, however, he added.

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Patch reports on law enforcement activity, using information provided by official agencies. Persons charged with a crime, or issued a citation for violation of a local ordinance, are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.