Man Accused Of Killing Girlfriend, A City Worker, Had History of Domestic Violence, Prosecutors Say
Darreon Plummer, 33, shot and killed OEMC employee Da’J Flowers in their West Rogers Park apartment in February, then fled Illinois and assumed a false identity before he was arrested this week, prosecutors said.
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