Jury in Chicago convicts man in triple homicide

A jury in Chicago deliberated for about an hour before finding an Iranian immigrant guilty of killing his wife and two other family members.

The jurors convicted Daryoush Ebrahimi on Thursday in the attacks that killed his 44-year-old wife, her sister and her mother in 2007. The Chicago Tribune reported that the verdict carries a mandatory life sentence.

Prosecutors contend Ebrahimi used a hammer and knife to kill Karmin Khooshabeh because he believed she wanted to divorce him.

Authorities say he then lured his sister-in-law to his family’s apartment with a phone call and killed her before going to his 60-year-old mother-in-law’s home to bludgeon and stab her to death.\