Homicide Watch Chicago

A 67-year-old woman was sentenced to 18 years in prison Wednesday for urging her grandson to kill his namesake grandfather, William Strickland, outside their Far South Side home in 2013. Janet Strickland encouraged 23-year-old William Strickland to shoot her husband of nearly 30 years six times in the back on March 2, 2013, according to … Read more →

By RUMMANA HUSSAIN Chicago Sun-Times A South Side man who gunned down his grandfather, allegedly at the urging of his grandmother, was sentenced to 40 years in prison Wednesday. While Cook County Judge James Linn said it was sad that the adults in William Strickland’s life took him “down to the road of ruin,” he … Read more →

By RUMMANA HUSSAIN Chicago Sun-Times William Strickland was named after his grandfather and lived with the elderly man on the South Side. But the young man was under the influence of another senior living in the home, his grandmother. When she suggested he should kill off his grandfather so they could spend his money, the … Read more →

By RUMMANA HUSSAIN Chicago Sun-Times When Lesley Strickland learned her father, William Strickland, had been gunned down before his routine Saturday morning dialysis appointment, she rushed from her home in Milwaukee to Chicago’s South Side. Strickland said she was greeted by her drunk stepmother, who started giving away furniture and discussing how she would redecorate … Read more →

Chicago Sun-Times (IL) - Sunday, March 31, 2013 Author/Byline: BY TINA SFONDELES ; Staff Reporter William Strickland waited for his grandfather to step out of his South Side home to take his paratransit ride to a kidney dialysis appointment early March 2, authorities said Saturday — then stood behind the 72-year-old man, shot him six … Read more →

Chicago Sun-Times (IL) - Sunday, March 3, 2013 Author/Byline: BY BECKY SCHLIKERMAN ; Staff Reporter William Strickland usually wanted to get to his dialysis appointment early to get it out of the way, so the 72-year-old South Side man headed out in the predawn hours Saturday. He had just made it to the gangway outside … Read more →