A 63-year-old man from Plainfield died after going into the water at DuSable Harbor early Saturday, and the Cook dinner County Medical Examiner has now dominated his dying a murder.
Police and firefighters responded to a number of 911 calls simply after 3 a.m. reporting {that a} man had fallen from the harbor’s “C” Dock at 200 North Lake Shore Drive, in response to dispatch data. A number of witnesses informed 911 operators they noticed the person fall into the water and Chicago Fireplace Division divers pulled him out about quarter-hour later. He was pronounced useless at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
On Sunday, the health worker’s workplace decided he died from drowning, however the important thing discovering got here within the method of dying: murder.
That designation means the workplace concluded that one other individual precipitated the person’s dying. It doesn’t robotically imply {that a} prison act occurred. “Murder” for the health worker implies that one other individual precipitated the person’s dying. “Homicide,” nonetheless, is a authorized time period that considers the totality of the circumstances and the intent of the one that precipitated the dying.
Authorities haven’t stated what data led the health worker to conclude that the drowning was the results of one other individual’s actions. The Chicago Police Division has not introduced any arrests or suspects, and investigators haven’t shared additional particulars about what witnesses noticed earlier than or after the person entered the water.
Since 2015, the health worker’s workplace has dominated solely two different drowning deaths in Lake Michigan to be homicides. Prosecutors decided that each of these homicides had been additionally murders:
- In July, a 31-year-old lady was charged with murdering her 14-month-old son by drowning him within the lake close to the South Shore Cultural Middle, 7059 South South Shore Drive.
- In October2022, a 34-year-old lady was charged with murdering her 3-year-old nephew by throwing him into the lake from Navy Pier.
Each of these homicide instances are nonetheless pending in court docket.
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