Dressed 5in a tan jail outfit and slumping in the witness chair, Eddie Lonnell Harkins on Friday coolly recounted an alleged conversation he had in a police lockup with Lamont Motes, on trial in the July mob beating deaths of two men after a South Side van crash.
Motes, 20, was among a group of men being held for questioning at Wentworth Area police headquarters as investigators tried to determine who beat, kicked and stomped to death Jack Moore, 62, and Anthony Stuckey, 49. The pair had been dragged from their rented van and killed after the vehicle plowed into a group of four women on a stoop in the Oakland neighborhood, injuring them, one fatally.
“He said that they couldn’t have no evidence on him,” Harkins said of Motes as he testified on the third day of Motes’ jury trial. “The other guys had blood on their shoes, but he went to his mother’s house and took his shoes and burned them.”
