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Police had not filed charges against anyone Monday in a shooting that killed a Chicago man and wounded another man Sunday morning at a Skokie car wash used regularly to clean police vehicles. Skokie Police Sgt. Fred Brehmer said at least one person of interest is in custody but no charges had been filed as of 12:45 p.m. Monday.

Police received several 911 calls at about 3:50 a.m. Sunday regarding shots fired at Lucky’s Car Wash, 8440 Niles Center Rd., Brehmer said.

Brehmer said two men were found shot on the scene. One of the men, identified as Turner E. Yaghoub, 21, of 6551 N. Fairfield Ave. in Chicago, was pronounced dead at St. Francis Hospital in Evanston, while the other was listed in critical condition.

One of the victims was somehow “related” to the car wash, but Brehmer would not elaborate. “There is no risk to the general public,” he said. “Everybody involved is in police custody and we are interviewing all involved parties.”

Brehmer said the car wash and the neighborhood surrounding it are not known for being frequent crime scenes. The car wash, in fact, is not far from the police station on Laramie Avenue, and police cars are regularly washed there, he said.

“There is no risk to the general public,” Brehmer said.

Homicides in Skokie are rare. Brehmer said the last time he remembers a fatal shooting was when Northwestern basketball coach Ricky Byrdsong was killed in 1999 by a member of a white supremacist group.

In 2003, a man and two women were convicted of murdering the owner of the Great Steak & Potato Co. in Westfield Old Orchard.

And in 2005, Jeanette Sliwinski of Morton Grove was charged with murder when she rammed her vehicle into a stopped car at Niles Center Road and Dempster Street, killing three men inside. But Sliwinski was convicted of a lesser crime and released from prison last year.

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1 slain, 1 wounded in Skokie shooting

February 8, 2009 9:26 PM | 65 Comments | UPDATED STORY

Skokie police are talking to several people who witnessed a fatal shooting outside a carwash early today and have identified a person of interest in the case, Sgt. Frederick Brehmer said.

Investigators examine the area of a shooting this morning in Skokie in which one person was killed and another was hospitalized in critical condition. (Tribune/Tom Van Dyke)

Brehmer declined to describe the person or people police think fired the shots or a possible motive.

Police said they received several calls about 3:50 a.m. about shots fired just outside Lucky’s Hand Carwash and Detailing, 8440 Niles Center Rd. When police arrived, they discovered two gunshot victims — a Chicago man who later died, and a second person who is in critical condition at St. Francis Hospital in Evanston.

Brehmer identified the slain man as Turner E. Yaghoub, 21, of the 6500 block of North Fairfield Avenue.

Brehmer said neither victim is believed to be associated with the carwash and declined to comment on what they may have been doing at the business, which is near the Skokie Yellow Line “L” tracks. The carwash was closed at the time of the shooting. The shooting was not random, Brehmer said.

Police on Sunday blocked Niles Center between Main Street and Wright Terrace, and marked and photographed more than a dozen pieces of evidence on the tracks and street.

– Emily S. Achenbaum

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Chicago man released in Skokie shooting

February 11, 2009 5:21 PM | 12 Comments
A Chicago man in custody since a weekend shooting outside a north suburban carwash has been released without charges, police said Wednesday.
One man was shot to death and another was seriously wounded early Sunday outside Lucky’s Hand Carwash and Detailing, 8440 Niles Center Rd., in Skokie.

The man who fired the fatal shot was released Tuesday without charges after being questioned by investigators, said Skokie police Sgt. Fred Brehmer.

Brehmer said the results of the police investigation were turned over to the Cook County state’s attorney’s office, which will decide if charges should be filed. Brehmer declined to release the police findings.

A spokesman for the state’s attorney’s office also declined to comment.

Turner E. Yaghoub, 21, of the 6500 block of North Fairfield Avenue was shot to death. The wounded man remains hospitalized, authorities said.

–Staff report

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