Chicago man with a long criminal record was convicted today of killing an 88-year-old widower on his way to reconnect with an old flame.
After a three-day bench trial, Criminal Court Judge James Obbish found Kenneth Starr guilty of felony murder and aggravated vehicular hijacking in the September 2008 death of Jacint Calderazzo, according to the Cook County state's attorney's office.
Starr, 36, formerly of the 4800 block of West Congress Parkway, faces between 20 and 60 years in prison, state's attorney spokeswoman Tandra Simonton said.
Prosecutors said Calderazzo was standing outside of his car in the parking lot of a Southwest Side drug store near Midway Airport when Starr -- a felon with previous convictions for drugs, home invasion and aggravated battery -- shoved him aside and climbed into the older man's Buick.
As Calderazzo, an aerial photographer in World War II, gathered himself behind behind his car, prosecutors said Starr sped backwards, striking and running over Calderazzo to make his escape. Calderazzo, of Valparaiso, Ind., was later pronounced dead at a suburban hospital.
Streamwood police later arrested Starr, who had some of Calderazzo's credit cards on him, authorities said.
The spry grandfather of eight was in Chicago to meet up with an old girlfriend to whom he was once engaged. The couple hoped to rekindle an old romance that began six decades prior, according to Calderazzo’s family.
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