A man from Chicago has received a 58-year prison sentence for the murder of his half-sister’s long-term boyfriend, all while wearing an electronic monitoring device due to a previous shooting charge.
During a bench trial in July, Judge Nicholas Kantas convicted 35-year-old Kevin Bennett on charges of murder and unlawful possession of a weapon as a convicted felon. The sentencing took place last week at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse.
According to prosecutors, Bennett had been on electronic monitoring at his mother’s residence in the Woodlawn neighborhood in August 2022 as he awaited trial for a shooting incident from 2020. At that time, his half-sister and her boyfriend, aged 29 and in a relationship for seven years, had moved in with him at the same address.
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