Homicide Watch Chicago

By RUMMANA HUSSAIN Chicago Sun-Times Kamel Harris told someone he “snapped” when he killed 2-year-old Kyrian Knox and threw the toddler’s dismembered body into the Garfield Park lagoon, Cook County prosecutors said in court Wednesday. The Rockford man also confessed to another person that he had “f—– up” and “something terrible happened” just days before … Read more →

By SAM CHARLES Chicago Sun-Times A Rockford man has been charged with killing 2-year-old Kyrian Knox last year because the toddler wouldn’t stop crying, then dumping the boy’s dismembered body in the Garfield Park lagoon. Kamel Harris, 41, faces one count each of first-degree murder, concealment of a homicidal death, and dismembering a human body, … Read more →

Authorities have officially ruled the death of a 2-year-old boy, believed to be Kyrian Knox of Rockford, found dismembered in the Garfield Park Lagoon in September a homicide. The Cook County medical examiner’s office is still awaiting DNA tests to formally identify the toddler, whom detectives have named as Kyrian Knox, but an office spokeswoman … Read more →