A 44-year-old man on parole for the murder of his grandmother, who was slain with a meat cleaver 24 years ago, was in court today to face charges in the violent armed robbery of a West Side convenience store.
Gregory Turner, 44, was arrested Saturday in an alley behind his home in the 200 block of South Laramie Avenue after he was identified in a photo lineup by the store owner, officials said.
The clerk at a convenience store in the 3800 block of West Chicago Avenue told police two men armed with handguns came into the store about 8:30 p.m. Saturday. The robbers bound the clerk's hands with duct tape and hit him in the head with a pistol butt, then emptied the register of cash, according to court records.
When Tuner was arrested about 30 minutes later, police found a packet of heroin in his shoe and $277 cash. Judge Donald Panarese Jr. on Sunday ordered Turner held on $900,000 bond on counts of armed robbery, aggravated unlawful restraint and possession of a controlled substance.
The second suspect remains at large, Chicago police said Sunday afternoon.
In 1987, Turner was convicted of killing his 59-year-old grandmother, Lillian Broome,with a meat cleaver after she refused to give him money to buy cocaine, police said at the time.
Broome was stabbed in the face and head more than two dozen times, police said, and Turner took $310 the straw-thin woman had hidden in her apartment in the LeClaire Courts complex of the Chicago Housing Authority.
Neighbors saw Turner's car parked outside the apartment, and when police questioned him that night, his shoes still were spattered with Broome's blood.
Turner was sentenced to 40 years in prison. He was released in 2008 and was due to end his parole in November, according to Illinois Department of Corrections records.
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