Friday, December 21, 2012
The facts surrounding the beating death of Nereem Gamal Sam show the complexity of domestic violence cases. Find out steps you can take if you suspect someone you know is a victim.
The domestic conflicts between Bahaa Sam and Nermeen Gamal Sam were known among some of their neighbors in the Brookside Glen subdivision where they lived. Some of those neighbors did what they could to help— asking at times for police to do well-being checks, watching the couple's four children or testifying in court. Sadly, it wasn't enough to stop a tragedy from happening. READ: 'Daddy Killed My Mommy,' Son Told Police Bahaa Sam is accused of beating his wife to death with a weightlifting curling bar, striking her on the head more than 10 times, according to Will County prosecutors. He was charged Wednesday with first-degree murder. Court records show Bahaa Sam faced domestic battery charges in 2005 and 2012. The 2012 charge was reduced…
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Bahaa Sam beat his wife with a weightlifting curling bar as their 4-year-old son watched, Will County prosecutors claimed at the Tinley Park man's hearing. Sam is charged with first-degree murder and is being held on $5 million bail.
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Friday, December 21, 2012
UPDATED: 7:27 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 20 A Tinley Park man beat his wife with a weightlifting curling bar Wednesday as their 4-year-old son watched, Will County prosecutors said Thursday at a hearing for the 47-year-old man. Bahaa A. Sam was charged with first-degree murder in the death of his wife, Nermeen Gamal Sam, 38. An autopsy report stated she was hit in the head more than 10 times. Bahaa Sam is being held on a $5 million bail. READ: Husband Charged With Murder in Wife's Death in Brookside Glen If Sam posts bond, which is $500,000, he must turn in his American and Egyptian passports to the Will County Sheriff's Office. His next court date is Jan. 11. "If he walks out those jail doors, I want those passports," said Judge Roger Rickmon. …
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Thursday, December 20, 2012
Bahaa A. Sam, 47, faces first degree murder in the death of his wife, Nermeen Gamal Sam, 38, according to police. The husband has a history of domestic battery charges, court records show.
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Thursday, December 20, 2012
Tinley Park resident Bahaa A. Sam, 47, has been charged with first degree murder in the death of his wife, Nermeen Gamal Sam, 38, according to police. Nermeen Sam had been beaten Wednesday by a blunt object, and her body was found outside her home in the 19700 block of Silverside Drive, near a neighbor's yard, said Tinley Park Police Chief Steve Neubauer. READ: Son to Cops: 'Daddy Killed My Mommy' Police responded at about 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 19, to an ambulance call to the home, a police press release stated. A public works employee had spotted Nermeen Sam's body next to a tree outside and called 911, Neubauer said. Bahaa Sam was immediately taken into custody, the release stated. He was charged Wednesday night and booked in to …
Friday, July 27, 2012
Mokena police said Frankfort Police Officer Donald Walsh choked and headbutted a woman, leading to a charge of domestic battery on July 25.
Frankfort police officer Donald Walsh, 29, was arrested in Mokena and charged with domestic battery July 25, after allegedly choking and headbutting a woman, Sun-Times Media reports. Mokena police said they responded to a 9-1-1 call at 3:48 a.m. on the 11500 block of Stratford Road, from a 9-year-old girl who heard her mother screaming. When officers arrived on the scene, the victim, a 31-year-old woman with whom Walsh had an on-and-off dating relationship, approached them from a neighbor's home and told them that Walsh was inside the woman's home with a gun to his head and that he had threatened to kill himself, Mokena police said. Officers made contact with him at the front door, detained him, and determined that a domestic battery had …
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Mokena police reports, March 1-11
SUNDAY, MARCH 11 Police said three cars, including one SUV owned by the Village of Mokena, were damaged over the night March 10 and 11. According to the reports: THURSDAY, MARCH 8 Ronald J. Knedlik, 30, of the 7500 block of Inverness Lane in Frankfort was charged with interfering with reporting of domestic violence after turning himself over on a Mokena warrant. Police said Knedlik was arguing with a woman in the 19600 block LaGrange Road on March 1, around 4:30 p.m., when he grabbed her cell phone and the store's cordless phone and refused to let her call 911. The woman told police Knedlik pushed her and swatted her arms before eventually leaving. The next day, Will County State’s Attorney’s Office approved the charge and Judge Amy …
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ALEX S.
10:57 am on Friday, May 17, 2013
judges at Will county do nothing for abused victims, why was there no ORDER OF PROTECTION, REPEAT PHYSICAL BATTERY, AND 3RD TIME IS THE CHARM. more ›