A man has been charged with the beating death of a 70-year-old woman in Edison Park on the Northwest Side.
Thomas Diskin, 56, was arrested Tuesday morning after a 30-minute standoff with police in the 6600 block of North Northwest Highway, Chicago police said.
The woman was found dead with blunt trauma to her head and face, police said. Her name has not yet been released by the medical examiner.
Officers had been notified by a 911 caller who said a man dressed in pajamas had approached her and said he had killed someone in an apartment, according to police radio traffic.
Diskin was charged with murder and home invasion. He is also charged with aggravated cruelty to animals, but police released no details.
Court records show Diskin was arrested in January for aggravated battery to a police officer, but the charges were dropped on March 8, the day he was arrested in the murder case. He had been released on his own recognizance after the Jan. 17 arrest, court records show.
He was due in bond court Thursday morning.
