Resident brandishes gun during argument

Officers responded to an aggravated assault in south Evanston on Monday afternoon, police said.

Two relatives were in an apartment in the 700 block of Brummel Street when a verbal altercation turned violent, police said. One man brandished a gun and threatened to shoot the other man in the apartment, Evanston police Cmdr. Joseph Dugan told The Daily. The man with the gun left the apartment without shooting and has not been apprehended, Dugan said.

Battery reported in downtown church 

An Evanston man reported a battery on Sunday afternoon at a church in downtown Evanston, police said.

The man told officers an acquaintance pulled him backward during a verbal dispute while the two were in a church in the 1700 block of Benson Avenue, Dugan said. The man reported the incident about an hour later but told police he didn’t want to press charges.

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