By: E&P Staff A street gang member will be sentenced Sept. 21 for his conviction in the 1993 murder of a newspaper press operator who worked at the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun-Times.
A Cook County, Ill., jury on Monday convicted Dwayne King, a 43-year-old member of the Gangsters Disciples, for the May 23, 1993 murder of Thomas Solsberry.
A separate jury found Antoine Mack not guilty of the murder, which followed a traffic dispute. Mack was 13 years old at the time of the murder.
Solsberry and his wife were driving a few blocks from their home when he pulled up for a stop sign. There was a collision involving a car with King and Mack, who blamed the press operator for the accident.
According to an account in the Sun-Times written by staff reporter Stefano Esposito, Solsberry went home to call for police and an ambulance. When he returned to the accident scene, the gang members yelled at him, and Solsberry ran from the scene. He was chased by King and Mack, and a third gang member who has since died, and beaten and stabbed as he knocked on the door of a nearby home.
The case went unsolved until 2002 when a man who had served time in prison with King told law enforcement that King told him about the murder.
King faces between 20 and 60 years in prison at sentencing.
According to a Tribune article by Carlos Sadovi, Solsberry worked at the Tribune as a press operator from 1975 to 1983, when he began work at the Sun-Times. The Tribune quoted his wife as saying Solsberry had just returned to the Tribune as a journeyman printer when he was killed.
Comments
No comments on this item Please log in to comment by clicking here