A Chicago woman was charged with first-degree murder Monday in the weekend death of her 4-year-old son in their home, police said.
Nicole Harris, 23, is accused of strangling Jaquari Dancy on Saturday after becoming angry at him for disobeying her instructions to stay inside when she left to do laundry. Her bond was set at $1 million Monday in Cook County Circuit Court.
Prosecutors said Harris left the boy and his 5-year-old brother home alone Saturday afternoon as she did the laundry. She discovered the boy outside when she returned about 45 minutes later, beat him with a belt and sent him to his room, prosecutors said.
When he would not stop crying, she wrapped a sheet from the top bunk of a bunk bed around his neck and strangled him until he stopped moving, then returned to the coin-operated laundry, according to prosecutors.
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Nicole Harris, 23, is accused of strangling Jaquari Dancy on Saturday after becoming angry at him for disobeying her instructions to stay inside when she left to do laundry. Her bond was set at $1 million Monday in Cook County Circuit Court.
Prosecutors said Harris left the boy and his 5-year-old brother home alone Saturday afternoon as she did the laundry. She discovered the boy outside when she returned about 45 minutes later, beat him with a belt and sent him to his room, prosecutors said.
When he would not stop crying, she wrapped a sheet from the top bunk of a bunk bed around his neck and strangled him until he stopped moving, then returned to the coin-operated laundry, according to prosecutors.
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