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.