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Saturday 9 September 2017

Man gets 4 life terms plus 280 years for Rockford murders

ROCKFORD, Ill. (AP) — A wasn’t simply a murder.” ford apartment. Also killed
northern Illinois man was Carter’s defense attorney was 24-year-old Demon-
sentenced Friday to four life immediately filed an ap- tae Rhodes. Flint’s mother,
terms plus 280 years in pris- peal. Carter was convicted Rolanda Collins, testified
on in the 2014 killings of his in July on 133 counts. He at the sentencing hearing
ex-girlfriend, her two young waived his right to attend that she wanted Carter
sons and her boyfriend. sentencing and didn’t pro- locked up forever.
Associate Judge Fernando vide a written statement to “May the same demons
Engelsma appeared emo- be read in court. Prosecu- you worshipped terror-
tional as he sentenced Cal- tors asked for two life sen- ize your soul in hell,” Col-
vin L. Carter III, 24, who did tences. Carter’s attorney lins said. Prosecutors said
not appear in Winnebago didn’t specify an amount. Carter killed the four af-
County court, The Rock- Investigators said Carter ter Flint broke up with him
ford Register Star reported . fatally shot 24-year-old to rekindle a relationship
The judge called the killings Martia Flint, along with her with Rhodes. Carter’s de-
“cold and calculated.” sons — 6-year-old Tyrone fense argued the case
“These children were ex- Smith III and 4-year-old To- was built on circumstantial
ecuted,” Engelsma said. “It bias K. Smith — in a Rock- evidence.q

This booking photo shows Calvin L. Carter III of Rockford, Ill.
Carter was sentenced Friday, Sept. 8, 2017, to four life terms plus
280 years in prison for the 2014 killings of his ex-girlfriend, her
two young sons and her boyfriend.
(AP Photo/ Winnebago County SO)
State gets more time in alleged

sexual-fantasy murder case

CHICAGO (AP) — An Illinois ment. A bond-court judge
judge has given prosecu- ordered in August they re-
tors more time to secure an main jailed.
indictment of an ex-North- Prosecutors say they
western University profes- stabbed Lathem’s boy-
sor and an Oxford Univer- friend, Trenton James Cor-
sity employee accused in nell-Duranleau, 70 times at
the fatal July stabbing of Lathem’s Chicago apart-
a hairstylist in Chicago as ment. The 46-year-old
part of an apparent sexual Lathem and 56-year-old
fantasy. Warren allegedly chatted
The judge granted a re- online about their sexual
quest by Cook County fantasy of killing others,
prosecutors for extra time then themselves.q
during a brief hearing Fri-
day. The next hearing is
Sept. 15.
Wyndham Lathem and
Oxford financial official
Andrew Warren were ar-
rested last month on first-
degree murder charges.
After a formal indictment,
there would be an arraign-