DNA evidence, along with surveillance video and witnesses, led to charges against a teenager in the death of a 68-year-old woman who was pushed down the stairs of the Fullerton Avenue elevated train station.
Prince Watson, 17, is charged with murder and robbery for shoving Sally Katona-King down the stairs last March after he had snatched an iPhone from a passenger on a Brown Line train as it pulled into the Fullerton station, according to Tandra Simonton, a spokeswoman for the Cook County state's attorney's office.
Katona-King, a mother of three who was a deacon at First Lutheran Church of Logan Square and cooked for the homeless, died a day after the March 28 incident.
Watson, whose last known address was in the 300 block of West Hill Street in the Near North neighborhood, is serving a four-year sentence in prison for a similar robbery that he committed after Katona-King’s death, according to court records and sources.
He was arrested May 15 near the Clark/Division Red Line stop after he grabbed an iPhone belonging to another woman and fled, according to court records. She chased the teen, and police caught up with him. Watson pleaded guilty in June to robbery.
In addition, Watson was charged today in a separate robbery of an iPhone at the Sedgwick Brown Line station on April 17.
Watson is expected to appear in Cook County Bond Court Court on Thursday.
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