Overview
- Police identified the suspect as Justin Hernandez, a 32-year-old Evanston resident.
- Detectives arrested Hernandez after his release from medical care on Wednesday and charged him with one felony count of home invasion.
- Officers were called to a home in the 500 block of Chicago Avenue on March 10 after a report that the back door had been kicked in.
- Investigators say Hernandez armed himself with a kitchen knife and threatened residents who locked themselves in another room, and no residents were injured.
- Responding officers found Hernandez with a heavily bleeding arm wound, applied a tourniquet, and took him for medical and psychiatric evaluation, with the cause of the injury still undetermined.