Carbondale Alerts
Carbondale Police Press Release - Aggravated Battery
3/4/2025 - 6:23 PM UTC
NEWS RELEASE
City of Carbondale, Illinois
March 4, 2025
For Immediate Release
CARBONDALE – On March 3, 2025 at 10:28 p.m., City of Carbondale police officers responded to the 100 block of North Washington Street in reference to an unconscious person in the roadway. Officers found the victim had been battered and the victim was transported to the hospital for treatment of non-life threatening injuries. During the investigation, officers learned the suspect, Tyrique T. Williams, age 24 of Carbondale, and another unidentified person battered the victim. Officers found Williams and he fled from them. Officers apprehended Williams after a brief foot chase. Williams was found to be in possession of suspected narcotics at the time of his arrest. Officers charged Williams with Aggravated Battery, Manufacture/Delivery of Look-Alike Controlled Substances and Resisting a Peace Officer. Williams was incarcerated in the Jackson County Jail. Anyone with information about the incident is encouraged to contact the Police Department at the numbers listed below. The investigation remains active and ongoing.
Anyone with information about the incident is encouraged to contact the City of Carbondale Police Department at (618) 549-2121. You may also call the Carbondale/SIU Crime Stoppers anonymous tip line at (618) 549-COPS (2677) or the Murphysboro/Jackson County anonymous tip line at (618) 687-COPS (2677). Anonymous tips may also be made by selecting the “Crime Stoppers” tab on this website’s main page. Please help yourself and your county, its communities, and the university campus by using these numbers if you witness or have any information about a crime. Cash rewards for information that leads to an arrest are also made anonymously. Remember, crime doesn’t pay, but Crime Stoppers does!
The mission of the Carbondale Police Department is to work in partnership with our community to preserve life, protect human rights, protect property and improve quality of life by providing police service to all in a fair, sensitive, and professional manner.
