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Kenneth Merritt, one of two suspects accused of committing a violent carjacking in Beverly last month, turned and looked into the gallery as he walked into Judge Thomas J. Hennelly’s courtroom in Bridgeview Friday. Looking back were two dozen neighbors of the Beverly family he allegedly robbed at gunpoint, some of whom had attended his pretrial detention hearing last month. The turnout, ...
Residents Urged To Attend Accused Beverly Carjackers Arraignment - Beverly-MtGreenwood, IL - Ald. Matt O'Shea urges residents to attend the arraignment of two men charged in a carjacking Friday, Dec. 15, at the Bridgeview Courthouse.
Beverly robbery and carjacking suspects Damarri Conner and Kenneth Merritt pleaded not guilty Friday, as community members packed the courtroom.
Michele Pettiford needed to park her car on the street this week. Two weeks ago, she was carjacked in her own driveway and she couldn’t go back to the spot where robbers forced her to the ground behind her Beverly home and racked a gun pointed straight at her husband, Jeff, who ran out of the house to her screams. The thieves made off with the family’s 2012 Audi sedan, Jeff’s money clip and ...
Jeff Pettiford said it felt good to look the suspects in his family’s horrific carjacking in the eye during their detention hearing Thursday Afternoon.