{"id":721562,"date":"2026-04-12T00:07:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T00:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/721562\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T00:07:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T00:07:14","slug":"chicago-crime-damarri-conner-sentenced-to-14-5-years-in-prison-for-2023-carjacking-robbery-in-driveway-of-beverly-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/721562\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago crime: Damarri Conner sentenced to 14.5 years in prison for 2023 carjacking, robbery in driveway of Beverly home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">CHICAGO (WLS) &#8212; One of the men who pled guilty to <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/post\/beverly-carjacking-armed-chicago-crime-surveillance-video\/14028936\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">carjacking a woman in her own driveway in the Beverly neighborhood<\/a> has been sentenced to nearly 15 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Damarri Conner and Kenneth Merritt pled guilty earlier this year to the 2023 carjacking, which was caught on camera.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/watch\/live\/11064984\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ABC7 Chicago is now streaming 24\/7. Click here to watch<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The two men attacked the woman on Nov. 2, 2023 as she arrived home and took her car, Chicago police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The victim&#8217;s surveillance cameras captured the carjacking in the 9300-block of South Pleasant Avenue in the Beverly neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The attackers also stole the keys to another vehicle belonging to the family and stole that SUV later, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \"><strong class=\"vtkaO \">READ MORE |<\/strong> <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/post\/beverly-carjacking-armed-chicago-crime-surveillance-video\/14028936\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Victims speak out after armed carjacking outside Beverly home: &#8216;I don&#8217;t want to go outside&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Conner and Merritt faced charges of felony aggravated vehicular carjacking with a firearm and two felony counts of armed robbery with a firearm, among others.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Conner went before a judge this week and was sentenced to 14.5 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Merritt is set to be sentenced in June.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WLS-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO (WLS) &#8212; One of the men who pled guilty to carjacking a woman in her own driveway&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":721563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5124],"tags":[299295,24597,299291,299292,960,299293,5386,1818,299294],"class_list":["post-721562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago","tag-299295","tag-beverly","tag-beverly-carjacking","tag-beverly-robbery","tag-chicago","tag-damarri-conner","tag-il","tag-illinois","tag-kenneth-merritt"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116388826042404159","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=721562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/721563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}