CHICAGO (WLS) — A suspect has now been arrested and charged after allegedly shooting and killing a man before dismembering him and setting a house on fire earlier this year on the city’s West Side.
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Deparris Slaughter, 32 of Munster, Indiana, is charged in the March 7 murder in Lawndale, Chicago police announced Saturday.
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Chicago police said in March that a death at a West Side house fire was being investigated as a homicide and arson.
Officers and the Chicago Fire Department arrived at the Lawndale home on South Kirkland Avenue between Cermak Road and Ogden Avenue just before 9 p.m. on March 7.
Firefighters extinguished the flames and found a 68-year-old man inside the home, police said. He was pronounced dead on the scene.
The man’s cause of death was from gunshot wounds to the neck and chest, the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office said. Sources familiar with the investigation said in March that both of the victim’s arms and one of his legs had been severed.
Neighbors told ABC7 in March the victim rented the home and lived there with his two adult sons. They said the family was relatively new to the neighborhood and had only been on the block for the last two years or so.
Nine months after the crimes, Slaughter was identified as a suspect and was arrested Saturday in Burnham, Illinois, Chicago police said.
Slaughter is facing four felony charges: Murder – First Degree, Residential Arson, Dismembering a Human Body and Conceal Homicidal Death.
The suspect is set to appear in court on Monday.
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