Des Plaines police said the 21-year-old man fatally shot by police Wednesday afternoon was "armed with an electric hedge trimmer."
A Chicago man has now pleaded guilty to trying to kill a U.S. marshal and his K-9 officer companion.
Sean Grayson's case will go before the Illinois Prisoner Review Board on Friday, less than six months into the 20-year prison sentence he received after being convicted of Sonya Massey's murder He filed for release, citing symptoms of advanced colon cancer.
The shooting death of a man who police said injured an officer with a knife while resisting arrest has roiled Wisconsin's capital city, with Gov. Tony Evers calling for "transparency and accountability" and Madison community members gathering Thursday at a growing memorial.
An 18-year-old Chicago man has been accused of trying to steal a police officer's gun Tuesday.
There were cheers and a salute for an Indiana State Police sergeant who was released from a hospital after being shot in the line of duty.