Illinois man wanted for killing man in Gary is also suspected of killing mother, beating grandmother in Chicago days earlier, records say
in Lake Superior Court in Crown Point with murder, attempted murder, aggravated battery, two counts of domestic battery, one count of auto theft and three other misdemeanor charges.He is wanted in Indiana for the death of Eddie Collins, who was found stabbed inside his Gary home on the 9000 block of Oak Avenue.
“Christopher’s relationship to Eddie is not known,” Gary Police spokesman Sam Roberts said in an email Tuesday. A detective who arrived at 8 a.m. June 25 wrote the boy had blood on his head, fresh cuts on his face. His shirt was stemming some of the bleeding. Police found Eddie Collins “unresponsive” at the top of the stairs with “multiple” lacerations on his face and neck. He appeared stabbed and beaten to death, according to the affidavit.The boy said Collins broke into his grandfather’s home around 7:20 a.m., Roberts said. He was asleep upstairs when he heard the men arguing. His grandfather told the boy to call his mother.Christopher Collins took the phone, then attacked him. Then Eddie Collins jumped on Christopher to pull him off the boy.
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