By rssfeeds-admin “Those children will never see their mother again, so he should never see light again,” Ald. William Hall (6th Ward) said. “This is a chance to show us the standard of protection of women through law. If women are not protected under the law, then what good is showing up at the door?”
Showing up at the door is exactly what Hall plans to do. On Monday, he hosted two community meetings in Hamilton Park, asking men to step up.
“We want men who are committed to our ward, committed to protecting women, not preying on women, not being predators, to be that example,” Hall said.
Hall’s Chief of Staff Valencia Ahmad and Ward Supt. Darryl Smith told WGN News this is how the cycle gets broken.
“When I was a kid, I had role models. I had people going to work. I had people really just telling me what to do, helping me be disciplined. You can’t be what you can’t see,” Smith said.
“That’s extremely important that we get back to the basics of the roots of what Black communities and Black neighborhoods used to look like,” Ahmad added.
Their push to protect women follows a harrowing story from Thursday night, when the family of 33-year-old Teone Jones said she was attacked at her home in Greater Grand Crossing by her ex-boyfriend, 39-year-old Marcus Bausley.
Jones’ two sons, ages 11 and 8, were also stabbed multiple times, but survived.
“One is up and active. The other one still has a couple of hurdles to cross,” Hall said.
Bausley then allegedly took both boys with him. The 11-year-old was found a few miles away, knocking on doors in the 200 bock of West 66th Street.
“It was very traumatic what I experienced, to see an 11-year-od boy on my doorstep bleeding. Felt like he was bleeding out, but God sustained him,” witness Cynthia Keel said during a prayer vigil for Jones.
An AMBER Alert was also issued for the 8-year-old boy before he showed up on patrol station surveillance video in Auburn Gresham, about four miles from where the stabbing happened.
Bausley was arrested Friday morning near Crown Point, Indiana, after a license plate reader detected his Ford Escape, prompting a chase by state police and the Lake County Sheriff’s Department who boxed him in with their patrol vehicles.
Bausley is facing a felony resisting arrest charge in Indiana. He’s said to be fighting extradition to Illinois where he faces multiple charges, including
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