$10K reward in search for Rogers Park murderer
A $10,000 reward was offered Thursday for information leading to the capture of the person who police say shot and killed two men in a pair of apparently random attacks that happened within 36 hours along a half-mile stretch of Rogers Park — and that have left the neighborhood on edge.
The Jewish United Fund (JUF) and the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago announced the reward along with Cook County Crime Stoppers a day after police released surveillance video of the masked suspect and the manhunt entered its third day.
Police also clarified Thursday that they are unsure of the suspect’s race — saying now they believe he has a “dark complexion.”
“These murders are reverberating throughout the Jewish and the broader communities, and we are committed to doing whatever we can to apprehend whoever is responsible,” JUF executive vice president Jay Tcath said at the Bernard Horwich Jewish Community Center.
Eliyahu Moscowitz, the 24-yearold Orthodox Jewish man who was killed on a lakefront path near Lunt Avenue late Monday, lived in the city’s main Jewish enclave near the JCC, where more than 200 residents packed in for an update from police Thursday night.
His slaying occurred a day and a half after 73-year-old Douglass Watts was killed with the same gun Sunday morning in the 1400 block of West Sherwin, police say.
“It’s unnerving for this to happen so close to our community,” resident David Avram said. “Everyone is praying a little harder.”