Man guilty in 2006 murder of KFC clerk

A formerly homeless man with dozens of arrests on his record has been convicted in the murder during a robbery of a KFC restaurant employee five years ago and faces at least 45 years in prison, according to prosecutors and court records.

Larry Barlow, 51, was convicted Thursday of the first-degree murder of Antoinette Means, 19, 8400 S. Colfax Ave., who was shot late in the afternoon of June 25, 2006 inside the KFC restaurant at 83rd Street and South Chicago Avenue, according to court records.

A jury deliberated about an hour before convicting Barlow, said Cook County state’s attorney’s spokesman Andy Conklin.

Barlow was recorded by the KFC’s surveillance camera less than an hour before Means was killed there and returned to the store to rob it, then turned back to fire a shot that killed Means, prosecutors said.

Barlow has dozens of arrests on his record. He was convicted in 1982 and 1999 on burglary charges and in 1986 on an aggravated criminal sexual assault charge.

Barlow faces 45 years to life in prison when he is sentenced July 7, Conklin said.