Eddie Lonnell Harkins on Friday 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 men 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.
Harkins, a convicted felon, was in the lockup as police investigated a home invasion and attempted murder, for both of which Harkins eventually was charged. The case is pending, and Harkins, 23, faces a possible life sentence if convicted.
