The two men prosecutors say are responsible for the shooting deaths of a Beach Park couple in December had additional charges filed against them this week.
Man arrested in Gurnee armed robbery now charged in Beach Park double murder Darenell D. Hill
Updated 3/4/2021 3:18 PM
A Waukegan man arrested following an armed robbery in Gurnee Wednesday was charged with two counts of first degree murder after investigators found evidence tying him to the murder of a Beach Park couple in December, authorities said Thursday.
Darenell D. Hill, 35, is the second man charged in the Dec. 8 killings of Carlos Rodas Perez, 52, and Mercedes Rodas, 49. Timothy D. Triplett Jr., of Waukegan, was indicted last month by a Lake County grand jury and subsequently charged with two counts of murder in the same case.
Second man charged in deaths of Beach Park couple
By AP reporter
Derenell D. Hill | Lake County sheriff s office
LAKE COUNTY, Ill. - A northern Illinois man arrested Wednesday in connection with an armed robbery in Gurnee has been charged with first-degree murder in the December deaths of a
Derenell Hill, 35, of
Timothy D. Triplett Jr., 34, of Waukegan was indicted last month on first-degree murder charges. Lake County Sheriff’s Lt. Chris Covelli said the charges against Hill arose after officers searching the apartment he’d been staying in found a firearm that belonged to Perez.
Gurnee police said Hill was apprehended after officers called to a store were told a man entered the business, pointed a handgun at a cashier and customer, and demanded money from the cash drawer and safe. After ordering the cashier and customer to lie on the ground, the robber drove away in a SUV.
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