Man Batters Wife Until Cops Pull Him Off

Fernando Tereza-Fernandez, 20, of North Lawndale Avenue, Chicago, was charged with domestic battery June 18 at about 12:20 a.m. after police responded to a parking lot outside a nightclub in the 8500 block of Golf Road for a report of a woman screaming.

As a police sergeant arrived, he said he observed Tereza-Fernandez beating his wife and then lifting her off her feet and onto his shoulders and trying to force her into his vehicle. He continued to batter her until police pulled him off, they said.

The wife, 22, later told police she was with her husband in the nightclub when an argument over infidelity erupted, they said. Both parties were upset and went outside, where the wife became scared and decided to call her sister to ask for a ride home, according to the report. Police said Tereza-Fernandez pulled her by the hair towards his vehicle.

His court date is June 26 at 1:30 p.m. in the Skokie branch of the Cook County courts.  

Neighbor sees suspect entering car in driveway

On June 16, a 61-year-old Niles man residing in the 8000 block of Churchill told police that his neighbor had witnessed, on June 14 at about 4 a.m., a man in his 20s walk up onto his property and enter his 1998 Lincoln four-door vehicle. He also tried to enter another vehicle, but it was locked. The suspect returned to the Lincoln and took something from the visor, and ran when he spotted the neighbor watching him. A spare set of keys was taken. The neighbor did not report the incident right away.

Information is taken from reports.

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