Prosecutors: Stanley Parker fatally shot ex-girlfriend's new beau Devin Pope

Michael Lansu — Mon, 11 Aug 2014 08:51:57 -0500

Stanley Parker / Photo from Cook County Sheriff's office

BY BRIAN SLODYSKO
Homicide Watch Chicago

A Chicago man accused of killing his ex-girlfriend’s new beau earlier this month was ordered held without bond by a Cook County judge on Sunday.

Stanley “Rah Rah” Parker, 20, was charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the Aug. 1 fatal shooting of Devin Pope.

Pope was shot in the head outside his girlfriend’s apartment near East 67th Street and South Clyde Avenue, prosecutors said.

Pope, 23, had only recently taken up with Parker’s ex-girlfriend, prosecutors said. They went out for food early Aug. 1. When they returned, Pope looked for a parking spot while the 23-year-old woman went up to her apartment.

She was on her way downstairs to let Pope in when she heard a gunshot, prosecutors said. She found Pope lying on the ground with a gunshot wound to his head on a walkway outside her building. The woman saw Parker running from the scene, prosecutors said.

Parker, who had dated the woman for about 2 1/2 years, later contacted the woman’s family and confessed to the shooting, prosecutors said.

He was apprehended by U.S. marshals at an undisclosed location last week, according to court records.

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Prosecutors: Stanley Parker fatally shot ex-girlfriend's new beau Devin Pope