NORWOOD PARK – The 2 males accused of killing a 63-year-old Norwood Park man went on a purchasing spree utilizing the sufferer’s funds after leaving him sure and gagged in a basement, in line with Prepare dinner County prosecutors.
Jefferson Ubilla-Delgado, 29, and Geiderwuin Bello Morales, 21, have been ordered to be jailed till their trial after being charged within the brutal killing of George Levin, who was discovered useless Jan. 26 within the basement of the Norwood Park house he shared with relations.
The 2 have been charged with first-degree homicide and theft and have been denied bail at a Saturday courtroom listening to, the place “horrifying” particulars of the killing have been shared.
“I can’t overlook the horrifying nature of this crime,” Prepare dinner County choose William Fahy mentioned in the course of the listening to. “That is far more than mere tragic, and it’s actually far more than an accident. It’s surprising and horrifying. [Anything less than] detainment could be woefully insufficient.”
Ubilla-Delgado and Bello Morales made contact with Levin by way of the courting app Grindr, and the events organized to satisfy up for a sexual encounter, in line with Prepare dinner County State’s Lawyer’s Workplace charging paperwork.
Levin was consuming dinner along with his mom and sister, whom he lived with within the 7600 block of West Talcott Avenue, the night of Jan. 26 when he excused himself to go right down to his basement bed room.
Ubilla-Delgado and Bello Morales then entered Levin’s basement condo round 8:17 p.m that night time and have been seen on surveillance cameras leaving in Ubilla-Delgado’s white Lexus at 8:42 p.m, in line with Assistant State’s Lawyer Shelly Keane.
Over the course of these 25 minutes, Ubilla-Delgado and Bello Morales tied Levin’s ankles along with {an electrical} cable, duct taped his arms behind his again, caught a sock in his mouth and secured it with extra tape, beat the person and undressed him, Keane mentioned.
Round 8:30 p.m., Levin’s sister heard loud noises coming from the basement and checked on her brother downstairs, the place she noticed Bello Morales exiting Levin’s bed room. Bello Morales assured her that Levin was advantageous, Keane mentioned.
Levin’s sister tried to name and textual content her brother’s cellphone and acquired replies through textual content brushing her off, officers mentioned. After roughly two hours, Levin’s sister went again downstairs and found her brother “chilly to the contact” on the ground of his bed room a little bit earlier than 10:50 p.m., Keane mentioned. She tried to carry out stay saving maneuvers whereas ready for authorities.
The pair allegedly left the 65-year-old man on the ground of his bed room and ran off along with his pockets and cellphone, leaving the person with a subdural hemorrhage to the top, a hemorrhage to the neck, and rib fractures, in line with the state’s lawyer. He was additionally probably strangled to dying, prosecutors mentioned, citing preliminary info from the Prepare dinner County Medical Examiner’s workplace.
Ubilla-Delgado was born in Ecuador and Bello Morales in Venezuela, in line with a police report. Their authorized statuses are unknown together with their legal data of their house international locations, nevertheless Ubilla-Delgado was sporting a Division of Homeland Safety/Immigrations and Customs Enforcement monitoring bracelet on the time of the crime, prosecutors mentioned.
Bello Morales is going through assault expenses for a Jan. 12 incident the place he gestured for a 13-year-old woman to enter his car, in line with courtroom data.
Over $4,000 have been charged to Levin’s financial institution accounts after the alleged homicide, together with 4 several-hundred greenback purchases made on his Amazon account.
Bello Morales was caught on safety digicam footage unsuccessfully making an attempt to withdraw money from an ATM at a gasoline station on Montrose Avenue with Levin’s bank cards, Keane mentioned.
The pair have been additionally caught on safety cameras at a Lawrence Avenue vape store with Levin’s cellphone, Keane mentioned in the course of the listening to. Ubilla-Delgado’s Lexus was tracked by way of digicam footage and license plate leaders, however his location was identified to officers by way of an emergency tracker positioned on Levin’s cellphone. Ubilla-Delgado was arrested at their house on Northwest Freeway on Wednesday and Bello Morales was arrested the subsequent day within the 2600 block of North Troy Avenue after his roommate gave police the person’s whereabouts.
Bello Morales allegedly was attempting to flee to Wisconsin whereas Ubilla-Delgado admitted to police that the pair had beat and tied up Levin, per Levin’s request, prosecutors mentioned. The pair allegedly agreed to have intercourse with Levin over Grindr in alternate for the 63-year-old’s cellphone. Ubilla-Delgado steered to police that Bello Morales stole Levin’s playing cards, Keane mentioned.
Public Defender Sierra Reed, defending a pensive Ubilla-Delgado who was clad t-shirt depicting the Minions cartoon characters at Saturday’s detention listening to, alleged that Levin’s dying was the results of an “unlucky accident” and that it was unclear whether or not the interplay was consensual. She described her shopper as a family-oriented man working a number of jobs.
Public Defender Erica Greene, defending Bello Morales, claimed that Morales performed a much less lively function within the crime than Ubilla-Delgado and emphasised the eight yr age hole between the 2.
The protection argued that Ubilla-Delgado and Bello Morales didn’t pose a critical risk to the group at massive, however that was rapidly shot down by Fahy, the choose who mentioned “to name this against the law of violence is sort of the understatement.”
Ubilla-Delgado and Bello Morales will each face legal trial on Feb. 25.
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