Tag Archives: ZION BEATING

Reward Offered After Cancer Patient Beat To Death in Zion

Aug 19, 2016 | WLSAM Staff

By Nick Gale, WLS-AM 89 News

The Cancer Treatment Centers of America is offering a $25,000 reward for information in the death of a patient that was beaten to death outside of one of the center’s hotels. Our Nick Gale has more…

The center is offering the reward after 46-year-old Shannon Vincel of Springfield, Mo. was struck several times with a blunt object Monday night. She died at an area hospital Tuesday.

Officials say she suffered “severe head trauma.” Police do not have much on the offender but say he or she was dressed in dark clothing and ran off.

Cancer Treatment Center of America has since increased security around the facility.

Police seek suspect in Zion beating

Aug 17, 2016 | WLSAM Staff

(ZION) Police are looking for a person who beat and seriously injured a Missouri woman Monday night in north suburban Zion.

Officers were called at 9:48 p.m. about a battery near 27th Street and Gabriel Avenue, according to a statement from Zion police. They arrived to find the 46-year-old woman with severe head trauma.

The suspect had approached the woman on the sidewalk while she was sitting outside in the 1900 block of 27th and struck her in the head with an unknown object, police said. She was taken to Condell Medical Center in Libertyville with life-threatening injuries.

The suspect was described as a black male wearing dark clothing, according to police. Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call the Zion Police Department at (847) 872-8000 or Lake County Crime Stoppers at (847) 662-2222.

© Copyright 2016 Sun-Times Media, LLC. All rights reserved.

Latest Local News