A woman killed a fellow panhandler while fighting over lawn along a highway in Chicago } last week Friday.
Mary Normand, 26, and Hernandez, 47, had an "ongoing problem" with begging at the exit ramp of the south-facing Edens Expressway on Wilson Avenue, Assistant State Attorney Danny Hanichuk said while out on bail Monday afternoon.
2:45 PM. On Friday, Normand accused Hernandez of begging for her in her own estate. The disagreement soon became physical.
Normand repeatedly hit Hernandez with her three-foot-long metal stake and pushed her moving box under her truck, Hanichuk said.
After Hernandez was run over by a truck, Normand cried out for help and continued to hit him with stakes as he tried to defend himself with his hands.
Hernandez was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries. The Cook County coroner ruled the death a homicide.
Despite begging in the same area as Hernandez, Normand is not homeless, said assistant public defender Jennifer Hodel. Ms. Normand lives with her fiancé, who has been working for a real estate company for the past three years, Hodel said.
Normand fled the scene but nearly five hours later he returned and was arrested according to Fox 5.
Normand } First-degree murder by Judge Maryam Ahmad .