Posted in related deaths11-27-2009 Illinois:
This is a very odd suicide, something is missing. Whatever caused this man to kill his new wife is unknown, but after doing that it is likley he -knowing what prison is like for sex offenders- decided life was not worth living. It is a good thing his wife's daughter was staying elsewhere that night.
A West Side man apparently shot to death his newlywed wife and then turned the gun on himself, Chicago police said this morning.
Antwone Coleman's body was found first late Thursday night, in the street in the 3300 block of West Monroe Street, a couple of blocks from the couple's residence in the 3400 block of West Madison Street. He had an apparent self-inflicted bullet wound to his head, police said.
As police investigated, they found the body of his wife, Claudette Coleman, 30, in the couple's third-floor Garfield Park apartment with a gunshot wound to her head.
Police came to the apartment about 1:55 a.m.
The couple were married Oct. 10, according to police.
Police said Antwone Coleman, 28, had a criminal record that included convictions for domestic battery and aggravated battery to a police officer. He was also a registered sex offender.
The older brother of Claudette Coleman said this morning that they were shocked to learn of her new husband's lengthy criminal record and said they knew nothing of any possible violence between the couple.
"It was news to us," said a distraught Artis Wilson outside his sister's apartment building in Garfield Park.
Wilson said that the couple had just spent Thanksgiving with family Thursday and that there were no signs of any trouble.
They were as "normal as you can get," Wilson said.
The couple grew up together, but Wilson said the family did not know of Antwone Coleman's criminal history.
Claudette Coleman was the mother of a 10-year-old daughter, Wilson said.
A friend of the family said Claudette Coleman's daughter had stayed with her great grandmother last night. ..Source.. Erika Slife and staff
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