A 23-year-old man, Joshua Williams has been charged with the murder of his 15-year-old girlfriend in the South Shore neighborhood in Chicago.
CBS News reported that Williams was charged with first-degree murder in the death of Amarise Parker.
Police said Williams strangled Parker on December 12, 2023 in the 7200 block of South Phillips Avenue.
Her body was found in the building around 7:24 pm the same day.
Prosecutors said Williams and Parker had been in a dating relationship and her family had filed several missing persons reports when she would leave home.
It is reported that Parker had been staying with the suspect for several days before the murder.
On December 10th, she went to the home of a neighbour of Williams and asked to use the phone to call her mother to get picked up.
When her mother went to Williams’ home to pick her up, she couldn’t find Parker, who called her again the next morning asking to be picked up, prosecutors said.
