Man awaiting trial for murder faces new criminal charges

Kidnapping, rape, robbery, and carjacking charges have been filed against a man who is in jail awaiting trial for the 2009 slaying of a woman.
The new charges against Melvin Fagan are not related to the slaying of the woman, who was found strangled in a vacant building in the West Englewood neighborhood.
In an indictment handed down Tuesday, Fagan is accused of kidnapping a woman and sexually assaulting her over two days in March of 2010. He is also charged in the robbery and carjacking of a 76-year-old man on Dec. 13, 2011 in the 3000 block of West 71st Street.
Fagan, 38, had been in jail last month, serving a four-month sentence, when he was charged with the Dec. 16, 2009 strangulation of Abbie Davis in the 5500 block of South Seeley Avenue.
Police were called to the building and found Davis’ body, nearly frozen and partially clothed.The Cook County medical examiner’s office determined that Davis, in her 40s, had been strangled.
Fagan has an arrest record dating back to the 1990s. After being sentenced to a year in prison in a 1994 unlawful use of a weapon case, he pleaded guilty in a 1996 armed robbery and armed violence case and was sentenced to 13 years in prison.
In 2005, he was arrested again on a felony drug charge, for which he was sentenced to four years in prison.