A suspect within the deadly stabbing of a 56-year-old man at a Navy Pier beer backyard Sunday was launched with out expenses, police mentioned.
John Branscomb, 56, fought with one other man over a lady they each had romantic curiosity in, in line with the Prepare dinner County health worker’s workplace and Ald. Brendan Reilly (forty second), whose ward consists of Navy Pier.
Branscomb, who lived within the Loop, was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, the place he was pronounced useless.
The opposite man, 64, from south suburban Riverdale, was additionally hospitalized and underwent surgical procedure for a small reduce to the chest. He “made a number of statements that the sufferer attacked him and he stopped the assault,” in line with a police report.
He was launched with out expenses, police mentioned Tuesday.
Reilly mentioned the suspect and sufferer knew one another.
“It seems one was a boyfriend. The opposite was an ex-boyfriend of a lady. They received into a really temporary altercation and, apparently, the man took one swipe on the sufferer and the sufferer walked away, sat down and apparently died there,” Reilly mentioned.
He mentioned safety responded to the incident rapidly and it wasn’t a random act of violence, so folks shouldn’t be fearful about their security on the Pier, one of many metropolis’s hottest vacationer sights.
“It’s unhappy that that is how persons are resolving their disputes now with a gun or a knife, somewhat than with their phrases,” Reilly mentioned. “It appears to be a phenomenon that has occurred post-COVID. Folks simply don’t know find out how to be civil and so they don’t know find out how to work out their conflicts with out violence. It’s enjoying out too usually.”
Final November, a disgruntled former worker fatally shot two coworkers at a restaurant workplace at Navy Pier.
