Man charged with fatally shooting man he believed was having affair with wife
Posted August 01, 2018 11:00 pm
A 37-year-old man has been charged with killing a man last weekend on the Near West Side after he accused the man of carrying on an affair with his wife, prosecutors said Wednesday during a hearing at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse.
Leanthy Sims, of the Lawndale neighborhood, is charged with first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of 42-year-old Raymond Figgers on Friday night during an argument between the two in front of a Salvation Army Community Center, according to the Cook County State's Attorney's Office.
About 11:30 p.m., officers found Figgers unresponsive and lying on a sidewalk with a gunshot wound to his head in the first block of South Campbell Avenue, Chicago Police said.
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