Simmons, now 36, of Chicago, was convicted Friday of murder after a jury deliberated for 25 minutes following a 5-day trial in Crown Point.
He was charged in November 2020 with her Sept. 16, 2019, death. She was found dead in a “dirty” and “trashed” Gary alley not far from where his family lived, Shaw said.Tribitt was a “sweet little girl,” her aunt, Monique Tribitt, said outside a courtroom Friday. She gravitated to people, bonding with them easily. She was smart and talkative, she said.
Prosecutors alleged several bits of evidence — cellphone location hits, social media data, his DNA on one of the cords, the bullet casing that could have been fired from a gun frame later found in a car Simmons used linked him, while defense lawyer Michael Campbell said the case was circumstantial at best and the evidence did not add up.
There also wasn’t definite proof the girl was killed in Indiana, he said. Prosecutors countered the girl’s condition days later made it unlikely she was moved. [Most read] New first probable COVID death in Illinois uncovered — a 64-year-old woman from Chicago who thought she had a coldTribitt was messaging with “Deon Lashawn” on Facebook a few days before her death, charges allege. A witness told investigators Tribitt was in contact with the older man on Sept. 12 before they last got a text from her at 9 a.m. the next day.
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