A Chicago man who prosecutors said beat an amputee to death while trying to collect a $600 cocaine debt during a home invasion in Edgewater has been sentenced to 12 years in prison—but he won’t serve a single day there.
Ronald Armour, 53, was released from the Illinois Department of Corrections on October 3, the same day he arrived, after receiving credit for the more than three years he spent in Cook County Jail awaiting trial and a standard 50 percent sentence reduction for good behavior, according to court and state prison records.
Armour was initially charged with murder and multiple felonies following the July 2021 attack inside an apartment in the 6000 block of North Kenmore Avenue. He has resolved the case by pleading guilty to causing bodily injury during a home invasion, a Class X felony, and was sentenced by Judge James Novy to 12 years in prison, court records show…