Wentworth Area Detectives received an unusual phone call from a local defense attorney on Monday night: the attorney’s client was reporting a dead body in a Greater Grand Crossing apartment and wanted to turn himself in, according to a police report obtained by the Tribune.
After Grand Crossing (3rd) District police forced their way inside the apartment in the 500 block of east 72nd Street, they found a 29-year-old Terriyanna Johnson on the floor of the bedroom, covered with a blanket, authorities said. Police found a small amount of blood underneath Johnson’s head and smeared on the closet door, per the police report, as well as her wallet and cell phone.
She was pronounced dead around 10 p.m., Cook County records show.
In an autopsy the next day, the Cook County medical examiner’s office found that Johnson had died from strangulation and ruled her death a homicide. Police arrested the man who called his lawyer about her body. The Tribune is not naming him because charges were still pending against him as of Wednesday morning.
The police report did not state the relationship between Johnson and the man who was arrested.
