John Atkins, a 33-year-old African American nightclub promoter and DJ known as Fuzzy, was found dead on August 31, 2013, in a gangway in the Morgan Park neighborhood of Chicago with a gunshot wound to the head. According to later accounts, he was lured from a nightclub by his girlfriend LaDonna Curry and her friend Audreianna McNeil, who led him to a house on the Far South Side and into the gangway where two men were waiting.

Curry and McNeil were charged in 2014 with conspiracy to commit armed robbery and later sentenced to 15 years after making detailed confessions. Those confessions describe the women promising sex, leading Atkins into the gangway, and leaving him on his knees with his hands behind his back before one of the men, identified by the women as Jabarri Hicks, shot Atkins in the back of the head. In 2019 Hicks, then 33 at arrest, was charged with first-degree murder; the confessions say the killers drove Atkins’ car to Gary, Indiana and burned the car, his cellphone and identification to destroy evidence.

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