CHICAGO (AP) - A man has been charged with first-degree murder and arson in the death of a Chicago woman whose beaten body was found after a fire at her home in July.
Thirty-five-year-old Wess Arnold of Waukegan appeared in court on Friday where a judge ordered him held without bail.
Arnold is accused of killing 38-year-old mother of three Ta’Andra Hall last month in her apartment in the Englewood neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side. Her body was discovered after firefighters extinguished a fire.
The death of Hall - Arnold’s girlfriend - was ruled a homicide after an autopsy she died of multiple injuries in an assault as well as carbon monoxide poisoning.
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