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.
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.