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No Bond For Mom Accused of Providing Knife in Deadly Fight

May 18, 2016 | WLSAM Staff

By Nick Gale, WLS-AM 890 News

(CHICAGO) The mother of a 13-year-old girl who is accused of stabbing to death a 15-year-old, has been ordered held without bond.

In court Wednesday the judge who denied bail called the death of DeKayla Dansberry “despicable” and noted that that 235 murders since the start of the year was “unprecedented insanity.”

Prosecutors says 35-year-old Tamika Gayden directed her 13-year-old daughter to get a switchblade knife from her purse. They say the daughter then went out and stabbed Dansberry. Both Gayden and her daughter are charged with first degree murder. Gayden is also charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

​Dansberry was stabbed once int he chest near 64th and South King Drive around 7:30 Saturday night.

Cop in Fatal Shooting Resigns

May 17, 2016 | WLSAM Staff
By Jennifer Keiper, WLS-AM 890 News
(CHICAGO) Rather than fight to keep his job, the off-duty officer who shot and killed Rekia Boyd in 2012, has resigned from the Chicago Police Department.
The Chicago Police Board says Dante Servin’s resignation comes days before his evidentiary hearing was set to start.
The hearing was to address various charges against the former officer.
In 2015, Servin was found not guilty of involuntary manslaughter for the death of  Boyd.
When Servin asked a group of people to keep the noise down near his Douglas Park home, words were exchanged and then Serivn shot into the group because he said he thought one of the men in the group had a gun. It turned out to be a cell phone.
The city settled a wrongful death lawsuit with Boyd’s family for $4.5 million but the city admitted no liability.
Because he served more than 20 years, Servin will be able to collect his pension when he turns 50.

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