CHICAGO (AP) — Derrick Lemon was nine years old when he testified to how he tried to save his younger brother from two boys who eventually tossed him from a 14th-floor window of a shuttered high-rise.
Now 23 years old, Lemon on Thursday was back in the same courthouse. This time he was being found guilty of murdering his aunt's 40-year-old boyfriend, Illya Glover, on March 1, 2006. Glover was shot to death as he tried to stop Lemon from choking the woman during a family barbecue.
According to prosecutors, Lemon attacked his aunt when she asked him to leave the residence during an argument.
Lemon's brother, 5-year-old Eric Morse, was dropped from a Chicago Public Housing building in 1994. Prosecutors said two boys, a 10- and an 11-year-old, killed the boy because he refused to steal candy for them.
Copyright 2010 The Associated Press.
Now 23 years old, Lemon on Thursday was back in the same courthouse. This time he was being found guilty of murdering his aunt's 40-year-old boyfriend, Illya Glover, on March 1, 2006. Glover was shot to death as he tried to stop Lemon from choking the woman during a family barbecue.
According to prosecutors, Lemon attacked his aunt when she asked him to leave the residence during an argument.
Lemon's brother, 5-year-old Eric Morse, was dropped from a Chicago Public Housing building in 1994. Prosecutors said two boys, a 10- and an 11-year-old, killed the boy because he refused to steal candy for them.
Copyright 2010 The Associated Press.
