Crime & Safety

Lincoln Square Woman Charged With Murder: Cops

A 23-year-old woman is accused of killing a Des Plaines man, police said.

CHICAGO, IL — A 23-year-old woman has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of a Des Plaines man, police said. Aida Busatlic, of the Lincoln Square neighborhood, appeared in court Monday for a bail hearing. The victim, 26-year-old Spiros Ibrem, was shot in the head Friday morning at a home in North Park, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner's office.

Busatlic, Ibrem and several other people were together Thursday evening in downtown Chicago, before they returned to a home in the 5000 block of North Bernard Street, according to police.

While the group was drinking in the home's basement, Busatlic took out a handgun and showed it to several people, prosecutors said.

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Around 9 a.m., one person left to go to bed and saw Busatlic and Ibrem sitting on the floor and talking, prosecutors said. Around 30 minutes later, the same person heard a gunshot, and saw Busatlic run out of the basement with the gun and blood on her hand, prosecutors said.

Ibrem was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.

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Busatlic was taken into custody Friday. She appeared in Leighton Criminal Courthouse Monday, where a judge ordered her held without bond.

Photo: Aida Busatlic, 23, via Chicago Police Department

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