Suspect charged in fatal shooting at UIC Medical Center
BY MICHAEL LANSU Staff Reporter/mlansu@suntimes.com November 25, 2011 2:06AM
Police responded to a barricade situation at University of Illinois Medical Center at Chicago after an employee allegedly shot and killed his ex-wife in a hospital parking garage late Friday. Photo from Sun-Times Media Wire.
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Updated: December 27, 2011 8:04AM
A West Side man was charged Saturday with murder for allegedly gunning down his estranged wife in a Near West Side hospital parking garage.
Earl Roberts, 47, of the 5000 block of West Adams Street, is facing one count of first-degree murder for the Thanksgiving shooting, UIC Associate Chancellor of Public Affairs Mark Rosati said.
Roberts is accused of killing his ex-wife, 48-year-old Angela Bonds, in a parking garage at the University of Illinois Medical Center at Chicago. He is expected to appear at a bond court hearing on Sunday.
Both Roberts and Bonds worked in the housekeeping department at the hospital.
Bonds, of North Riverside, was pronounced dead at the scene at 1:40 a.m. Friday--just hours after she was shot, in the 1800 block of West Taylor Street, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office.
The victim’s family said she was newly engaged and had separated from Roberts seven years ago. Bonds’ fiance, also a hospital employee, was with her when the gunman opened fire, Bonds’ brother Reginald said.
Police initially thought the alleged shooter may have headed back into the hospital, prompting a six-hour barricade situation.
Roberts, a 15-year employee with knowledge of the medical center and its network of underground tunnels, fled after the shooting, authorities said.
A campus police officer recognized him during a traffic stop near South Damen Avenue and West 14th Street and arrested him at South Hoyne Avenue and West 13th Street after a brief chase, Rosati said. Police have recovered the weapon allegedly used in the slaying.
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