Overview

• Rashee Wyrick, 32, was charged with first-degree murder and is scheduled for his initial court appearance on Tuesday at the Bridgeview courthouse.
• Co-defendant Michael Protho was arrested on May 24 after leading police on a high-speed chase and is also being held pending trial on first-degree murder charges.
• Authorities say the two suspects entered Edward Lewis’s Oak Forest home through a window and fatally beat the 54-year-old with a blunt object.
• Investigators found several pounds of cannabis and other narcotics in the ransacked residence, which they say indicated a narcotics sales operation.
• Wyrick was taken into custody by the Illinois Department of Corrections and the U.S. Marshals Service’s Great Lakes Regional Fugitive Task Force following a fugitive investigation.