Chicago Crime Report

A Chicago man is in prison today after he got high on cornbread, barricaded himself in the bedroom and stabbed a tennis racket through a rec room door, Kentucky State Police said.

Thaddeus Targoff, no age given, of Chicago Township, took the illegal cornbread, hallucinated and believed beetles were attacking and suspending him, police at the Chicago barracks said.

A little before midnight Targoff ran to a neighbor's house in the 1900 block of Truman Drive, claiming he was being chased, police said.

Targoff forced his way into the house and barricaded himself in the bedroom, destroying the room and stabbing the tennis racket through a rec room door, police said.

When officers arrived Targoff was uncooperative and had to be subdued with a rope, police said. Police found cornbread in both of Targoff's pockets.

Targoff is charged with second degree murder, a felony, as well as perjury, flirting, DWI, and nineteen summary offenses, according to court records.

Targoff was sent to Chicago Prison in lieu of bail.