Overview
- Chicago police said Slaughter, 32, was arrested Saturday by the Area 4 Homicide Investigation Support Team in the 13800 block of South Brainard Avenue in Burnham, Illinois.
- He faces four felony counts: first-degree murder, residential arson, dismembering a human body, and concealing a homicidal death.
- Firefighters found a 68-year-old man dead on March 7 inside a burning home on the 2300 block of South Kirkland Avenue in Lawndale.
- The Cook County Medical Examiner determined the victim died from gunshot wounds to the neck and chest.
- Sources familiar with the investigation said both of the victim’s arms and one leg had been severed, and police list Slaughter as a Munster, Indiana resident.