A 66-year-old man has been charged with first-degree murder and concealing the death of his 88-year-old mother, who was found wrapped in a rug after being reported missing two weeks ago, her other son told ABC7.
A man has been charged after an elderly woman was found dead this week on the city's South Side. Kevan Works, 66, is charged with with first-degree murder and concealing a death, Chicago police said. The brother of the suspect told ABC7 the victim is their mother, who was reported missing two weeks ago.
The victim, an 88-year-old woman, was found dead Tuesday in the 10700 block of South Lafayette Avenue in Roseland, CPD said. Kevan Works was arrested at the scene and was charged. After going missing nearly two weeks ago, police now say the grandmother was murdered by her own son.Michael Works doesn't want to believe his missing mother Daniest Graves has been found dead after allegedly being murdered by his own brother. Michael Works says his brother has a temper and had been to prison, but had turned his life around, even writing a book and owning his own digital company. "Is it in him... to do it?" Michael Works said. "Well, we have ever imagined him to touch our mother, no." Investigators told Michael Works his mother's body was found wrapped in a sheet and a rug in the basement of her own Roseland home. Relatives say Kevan Works had lived there with his mother for the last few months. No motive for the murder was given, as some nearby residents have been left shaken by the violence. "Put it like this, I'm just really shocked because they said she might of dead," one neighborhood resident said. Graves' family says she was reported missing after she was last seen on March 27. Her gray 2021 Ford Echo with Illinois plates was found on Chicago's West Side. Thursday afternoon, as her family grieves, Daniest Graves is being remembered as a church going woman who loved helping people. She received her college degree in her 80s and had just started a part time job working with the community so she could stay busy. "It crushes you, but she'll live on as long as you remember for the good that she did and she was true to heart and anybody who knows her will say it in a minute," Michael Works said.
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