Deandre Bell, left, and Davonta Curtis. (Chicago Police Department, Twitter)
Man Googled ‘how to kill someone with a hammer’ before killing trans girlfriend with a hammer: prosecutors
Prosecutors say a Chicago man Googled how to kill someone with a hammer before using one to beat to death a transgender woman he had been in a relationship with.
Deandre Bell, 24, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of Davonta Curtis, 31, whose body was found by family members inside her apartment in the 2400 block of West Lake Street on April 8. Prosecutors said she had been in an on-again-off-again relationship with Bell.
In a detention filing, prosecutors said the two spent part of Easter Sunday together and video showed them returning to Curtis’ apartment building that evening. Sometime between 11:40 p.m. that night and early the next morning, Bell struck Curtis repeatedly in the head with a hammer, prosecutors alleged. Surveillance video then shows Bell leaving the apartment building alone at 1 a.m. on the morning after Easter.
Curtis’ sisters, concerned after not hearing from her for a couple of days, found her body naked and partially covered by a sheet. Her blue 2009 Hyundai and her car keys were missing from the apartment.
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