Posted on 08/13/2009 6:14:57 AM PDT by Lurker
A 59-year-old man admitted to police he fatally shot man who held a knife to his throat and tried to rob him Wednesday morning in Chicago's Englewood community.
Maurice Willis, 36, was found in a trashcan at 1244 W. 61st St., the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.
Police said they responded to the 1200 block of West 61st about 9:30 a.m., where the victim was found dead with multiple gunshot wounds.
Officers on patrol were flagged down by a person who said a man sitting on the porch at 1244 W. 61st St. just killed a man at that address.
An officer approached the man on the porch and the man allegedly said, “Yep, I shot and killed a man in the basement,” according to police.
The man and the officer entered the basement apartment where the 59-year-old showed the officer the weapon he allegedly used, a Smith & Wesson .38-caliber revolver, and the dead man, who had multiple gunshot wounds to his face and chest and was sticking halfway out of a city garbage can.
The man also told police the incident began when he was entering his basement apartment and Willis ran up behind him and held a knife to his throat.
The arrestee said words to the effect of, “OK, don’t hurt me, I got money here in the mattress,” according to police, who said when he went to the mattress he produced the revolver and shot Willis.
Police said he apparently panicked and tried to hide the body in the bin, which he planned on rolling back out into the alley. Police said the incident may be reclassified to self-defense.
Wentworth Area detectives are investigating.
allegedly - most overused word since day 1 of the Clinton years.
“Of course you don’t see prosecutors go after real criminals much in places like Chicago.”
They work for the real criminals in Chicago.
How do you know that?
Police said the incident may be reclassified to self-defense.
Hope so. But you're probably right on the tampering with evidence, if they want to pursue that.
This is the right that the left wants to take away from us.
In Texas or Florida, yes, but not in Chicago.
...just for snoring.
You're supposed to register your guns in Chicago but the thugs in charge don't allow you to register your guns in Chicago. Catch 22.
That was a list of things I expect them to charge him. I want the guy to get a parade but also a fine for not disposing his trash in the proper receptacle. I think large items are only twice a month.
Probably done because of Chicago's totalitarian gun ban.
It was an apartment building. One of the neighbors must have done it!
From first sentence to last, that is one of the weirdest articles I’ve read in a while.
Heh, yup. Also, I thought everyone knew that you put the bodies in your neighbor's garbage can, not your own!
The funniest line in The Simpsons Movie was when Fat Tony was trying to move a dead body into the lake:
Chief Wiggum: Uh sorry, sorry, no dumping in the lake!
Fat Tony: Fine, I will put my *yard trimmings* in a car compactor.
Lou: Uh, Chief, I think there was a dead body in there.
Chief Wiggum: I thought that too, until he said yard trimmings. You gotta learn to listen, Lou.
But if you have a neighbor you don't much like...
“the dead man, who had multiple gunshot wounds to his face and chest...”
I usually just fire two warning shots...about mid-chest
well geez I thought the dumpster was where all Chicago late term abortions were tossed...
Monty Python...'bring out yer dead'...lolol
Damn, that guy got friggin' OWNED.
“I love it when the perp ends up in the garbage.”
Wonder if he put recycling sticker on dead perp
He’s not John Wesley Hart ;)
True. It'll make the detectives suspicious. But really, when something so hugely stressful like this happens, it's difficult to think clearly. Especially at first. People do silly things under stress. Hopefully the prosecutor will recognize that.
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