Overview
- Katelyn A. Harmon, 25, was charged with attempted murder and other felonies after police say she struck two pedestrians in Gurnee and then attacked a third person with a knife before being tased during her arrest.
- Police report the 79-year-old man hit by the vehicle remains in critical condition and a 60-year-old woman suffered a non-life-threatening ankle injury, while a 30-year-old man who confronted the knife-wielding suspect sustained hand lacerations.
- According to police statements and local reports, Harmon posted messages and video on social media after the incidents, and investigators say the events appear connected and random with no ongoing public threat identified.
- In a separate case, Glenview resident James W. Ropa, 65, was arrested in an NCIS-assisted sting and charged with grooming and indecent solicitation after allegedly arranging to meet a person he believed was a 13-year-old; prosecutors have sought to detain him with a Feb. 18 hearing set.
- The coroner identified Jonathan Williams, 19, as the victim of a Feb. 2 Grayslake crash caused by a left-turn collision, and authorities charged Beach Park resident Alan C. Solganick, 67, with drug and weapons felonies after a warrant search found nearly two pounds of cocaine and about $500,000.