An outgoing former college football player, Ben Price could fill a room with his energy and enthusiasm.
But that changed, his wife Jennifer said, after Ben, 48, got COVID-19 in February.
The man who emerged from the hospital was withdrawn and anxious, with a vague, deer-in-the-headlights gaze that Jennifer didn’t recognize. At his tractor and power equipment business in Morris, 60 miles southwest of Chicago, her normally hard-charging husband couldn’t answer a simple question. At home, he became increasingly panicked that he was falling behind with his side business, a small farm, and no reassurance that it was only February too early for crop work seemed to help.
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CHICAGO â A judge ordered a 30-year-old man held without bail over the weekend in connection with the fatal stabbing of a Good Samaritan who had tried to step in after he witnessed a teen girl being physically attacked at a Berwyn store, court records show.
Fernando Barrios, 30, was ordered held in Cook County Jail by Judge David Navarro during a hearing Saturday, according to an online broadcast of the hearing and a document presented in court by a Cook County prosecutor. Barrios had been charged with first-degree murder and attempted first-degree murder after Berwyn police say he fatally stabbed Humberto Guzman, 32, and stabbed a second man who tried to stop Barrios from fleeing after the attack on Guzman, according to Berwyn police and the court document.