A Chicago man who killed his half-sister’s longtime boyfriend while on electronic monitoring for a separate shooting case has been sentenced to 58 years in prison.
Judge Nicholas Kantas found 35-year-old Kevin Bennett guilty of murder and unlawful possession of a weapon by a felon during a bench trial in July. He imposed the sentence last week at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse.
Prosecutors said Bennett was living on electronic monitoring at his mother’s home in Woodlawn in August 2022 while awaiting trial for a 2020 shooting. Around that time, Bennett’s half-sister and her 29-year-old boyfriend, who had been together for seven years, moved into the same house.
Prosecutors said Bennett was openly hostile toward the boyfriend and repeatedly told his mother and half-sister that he wanted to kill him. Six days after the couple moved in, Bennett waited in the dark dining room for them to return home from a birthday party, according to prosecutors…