Joliet police

A man shot and killed by Joliet police late Tuesday night was holding a BB gun, and investigators now believe that he was the one who had called 911 in the minutes before the shooting took place. According to Joliet authorities, police were called to the scene in the 800 block of 2nd Avenue at approximately 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, with…

A man shot and killed by Joliet police late Tuesday night was holding a BB gun, and investigators now believe that he was the one who had called 911 in the minutes before the shooting took place. NBC 5’s Chris Coffey reports.

Officers fatally shot a person in suburban Joliet Tuesday evening, according to police.

Residents of a neighborhood in suburban Joliet recounted a shooting Tuesday evening in which one witness said she saw police shoot a man, hearing more than a dozen gunshots, with another saying she saw officers performing CPR on a person on the ground. Lisa Chavarria reports.

A Joliet police officer was arrested and is being charged with two counts of official misconduct after he allegedly used a police laptop to download footage of the arrest of Eric Lurry, a Black man who died in police custody earlier this year. According to a press release from the Joliet Police Department, Sgt. Javier Esqueda was taken into custody…

More videos have been released in the death of a man in the custody of Joliet police earlier this year. The videos provide more details of what happened the night that Eric Lurry died after being taken into custody by Joliet police. The police department is not commenting publicly on the situation, but released new footage Tuesday to provide a…

More videos have been released in the death of a man in the custody of Joliet police earlier this year. NBC 5’s Lexi Sutter has the story.

Friends and family of a Joliet man who died hours after he was taken into police custody in January continue to push for answers surrounding his death. Protesters rallied on Sunday in Joliet as friends and family took to the streets to demand answers surrounding Eric Lurry’s death after a controversial video surfaced showing what happened to him in...

Friends and family of Eric Lurry, who died hours after he was taken into police custody in January, continue to push for answers surrounding his death.

A Joliet officer has been stripped of his police powers after video showing a man’s fatal overdose while in police custody was leaked last week, a source with knowledge of the case told NBC 5. According to the source, the officer was moved to administrative duty and had his weapon taken away. The video showed what happened when Eric Lurry…

Will County Coroner Patrick O’Neil says his office and an independent forensic pathologist have both determined Joliet police officers “played no role and shared no responsibility” in the death of Eric Lurry, according to a statement posted to the Joliet Police Department’s Twitter page Saturday. Lurry died while in police custody in January, however, dashcam video of the incident...

More than five months after Eric Lurry died while in police custody, dashcam video of the incident has been obtained by NBC 5 News, and the man’s family is demanding answers about the actions taken by officers on that fateful night. Lurry’s wife Nicole finally got to see the video this week, and she says she was horrified by...

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More than five months after Eric Lurry died while in police custody, dashcam video of the incident has been obtained by NBC 5 News, and the man’s family is demanding answers about the actions taken by officers on that fateful night. NBC 5’s Christian Farr spoke to the man’s...

Multiple men were caught on camera stealing a puppy from a pet store in suburban Joliet Monday.

Authorities say a suburban police officer was charged with driving under the influence in connection with a crash on Interstate 55 early Sunday that killed an officer from another suburban police department.

A special prosecutor has been appointed to the case involving a suburban police officer who was charged with driving under the influence in connection with a crash that killed an officer from another suburban police department. NBC 5’s Regina Waldroup has the latest.

Authorities say a suburban police officer was charged with driving under the influence in connection with a crash on Interstate 55 early Sunday that killed an officer from another suburban police department.

Authorities say a suburban Chicago police officer was charged with driving under the influence in connection with a crash on Interstate 55 early Sunday that killed an officer from another suburban police department. NBC 5’s Regina Waldroup reports.

Authorities say a suburban police officer was charged with driving under the influence in connection with a crash on Interstate 55 early Sunday that killed an officer from another suburban police department. NBC 5’s Sandra Torres reports.

An off-duty suburban police officer was killed in a crash near suburban Plainfield early Sunday morning. Lisa Chavarria reports.