Posted on 11/27/2019 3:29:06 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
A parolee charged with killing a University of Illinois at Chicago honor student spotted her as she walked alone past a CTA Blue Line stop on campus early Saturday morning and grew angered when she ignored his repeated attempts to talk, Cook County prosecutors alleged Tuesday.
As Ruth George reached her car in a UIC parking garage, prosecutors said, Donald Thurman grabbed her around the neck from behind and put her in a chokehold. With his arm still wrapped around her neck, Thurman dragged an unconscious George to her car and threw her in the back seat, where he sexually assaulted her, prosecutors said.
At a bond hearing at the Leighton Criminal Court Building, Assistant State’s Attorney James Murphy said surveillance cameras captured Thurman following George into the parking garage. The two did not know each other, he said.
Investigators recovered a palm print from George’s car that matched Thurman and seized from Thurman’s home a distinctive white jacket he was seen wearing in the video, Murphy said.
Thurman confessed to physically attacking and sexually assaulting George, though he denied having intercourse with her, according to the prosecutor.
Police also found a discarded condom in George’s car.
Judge Charles Beach II ordered that Thurman be held in custody without bail. He faces up to life in prison if convicted of first-degree murder and criminal sexual assault.
The Cook County medical examiner’s office has ruled that George, 19, died from strangulation.
In a statement released Tuesday morning, George’s mother, who asked not to be named, offered a brief but aching remembrance of her daughter, a UIC sophomore.
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“Accused and victim are both of the ethic group involved in most Chicago killings.”
Get your eyes checked. Ruth George was clearly of subcontinental Indian background. It was obvious from her picture but if you can’t tell the difference:
Indian-American student sexually assaulted, strangulated to death in Chicago
*homeless I mean...
Exactly. Make small talk to be polite, then you’re “dissing” him anyway when you walk away. A no win situation if a predator has made up his mind and you’re unarmed.
Life in prison is worse than the death penalty....it is 30,40 50, years of misery VS 15mintes....
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