CHICAGO, Illinois — Chicago police have charged a 58-year-old landlord, Jerry Powe, with murder after a 36-year-old woman was found dead inside a residence in the 8100 block of South Ellis Avenue in Chatham, on the city's South Side, and another woman was allegedly assaulted at the same address.
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A 28-year-old tenant told a friend she was being sexually assaulted at gunpoint by her landlord, and the friend's 911 call triggered a police welfare check, according to reporting summarising the police report. Fire crews forced entry after officers found the apartment door locked and discovered an unresponsive 36-year-old woman on a couch, who was pronounced dead at the scene. Around the same time, Powe allegedly walked into the Grand Crossing police station and told officers he had killed a woman by strangulation, according to the police report.
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Powe faces six felony charges: one count of first-degree murder, one count of murder under strong probability of death or injury, three counts of aggravated criminal sexual assault with a weapon, and one count of aggravated kidnapping to inflict harm, Chicago police said. He was arrested at 10:30 a.m. on Thursday, October 22, in the 7000 block of South Cottage Grove Avenue.
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Neither woman has been named publicly, and the 36-year-old victim had not been officially identified by the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office in the reporting reviewed. Powe was scheduled to appear at a detention hearing on Saturday, October 24, at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse at 2600 South California Avenue.
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The charges are allegations and do not establish guilt. Police have not released further details about the circumstances, and the investigation continues as the case moves through the Cook County courts, where Powe is presumed innocent unless proven guilty.
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