Prosecutors on Sunday charged an Englewood man with beating a woman to death in the abandoned house where she and her teenage son were living earlier this month.
Antwon Chambers met Terryn Winters, 34, a few weeks before he allegedly killed her, Assistant State’s Attorney Eugene Wood said. Chambers, 32, had been living in an Englewood halfway house a few blocks from Winters and her son following a 12-year prison sentence for criminal sexual assault. State prison records show that he was paroled in March. Chambers is also listed on the Illinois State Police’s registry of sex offenders.
Winters’ 14-year-old son, Daryn Stanton, had been the first to call for help on Dec. 8 when he couldn’t find his mother in the vacant home where they’d been living on the 7000 block of South Normal Boulevard. Police found Winters dead in the house’s attic the next day.
On Sunday afternoon, Daryn sat wedged between his aunt and uncle with his hands in his lap as a prosecutor read out murder charges against Chambers during his first appearance at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse.