(Photo Courtesy of the Cook County Sheriff's Office)
Authorities in Cook County are searching for a 22 year old Homewood man suspected of severely beating his 46 year old mother Monday. The Cook County Sheriff's Office reports Blake Springsteen is a white male, approximately six-feet tall, weighing 240-pounds, and Sheriff Thomas Dart asks that you do not approach Springsteen, but does say anyone with information regarding his whereabouts is asked to please contact the Cook County Sheriff's Department. Authorities report Springsteen is suspected of beating his mother in unincorporated Homewood, then he reportedly bound her, put her in the trunk of a car and drove to Crete, where he is accused of stabbing her multiple times, and leaving her in a ditch in the nine-hundred block of Columbia Street.
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