A 22-year-old South Side man has been charged in the February slayings in Gresham of a woman who had moved to Iowa to escape city life and her boyfriend.
Derrick Pearson, 22, of the 7300 block of South Damen Avenue, has been charged with first-degree murder in the slayings of Maryrosa Russell-Green, 44, and Charles King, 28, in Russell-Green's car on Feb. 2.
Pearson, who has several drug arrests but no convictions on his record, turned himself in to Calumet Area detectives this afternoon and was charged soon after, according to police.
Police did not release details of what led them to suspect Pearson, or why he turned himself in.
Russell-Green, 44, recently had moved to Iowa from Chicago to find a job and escape the city life, her family said.
"She said she was tired of hearing the shooting and the ambulances," said another sister, Carla Harmon. "She said it was working (on) her nerves."
Russell-Green returned to Chicago to visit her daughter, grandson and her boyfriend, Charles King. After taking her grandson to lunch on Feb. 2, she told her daughter and sister that she was heading back to Iowa that afternoon.
Instead, police said she and King, 28, were parked in the 8500 block of South Morgan Street just before 6:30 p.m. that night when someone drove up, opened fire and fled.
Both were declared dead at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn.
Neighborhood witnesses said they heard about 10 gunshots and saw Russell-Green's car weaving down the street before it jumped the curb, plowed over a street sign and came to rest on top of a neighbor's front yard fence.
Pearson is scheduled to appear in Cook County Central Bond Court on Tuesday.
-- Liam Ford
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