A judge has granted prosecutors permission to obtain DNA samples from a 20-year-old northwest suburban man accused of stabbing three family members to death last week.
A judge has granted prosecutors permission to obtain DNA samples from a 20-year-old northwest suburban man accused of stabbing three family members to death last week. The order from Judge Jill Cerone-Marisie came during a hearing Monday during which prosecutors said D’Andre Howard’s DNA would be compared with blood from palm and fingerprints found on a kitchen knife and bloody footprints around the house. Howard was injured, so there is a possibility some of the blood is his. Howard of Hoffman Estates is accused of tying up his girlfriend and members of her family early Friday, before wielding a butcher knife to fatally stab her sister, father and grandmother. He’s held without bond and prosecutors are deciding whether to seek the death penalty. ______ In photo: This photo provided Saturday, April 18, 2009, by the Hoffman Estates Police Department shows D’andre Howard of northwest suburban Hoffman Estates. Howard, 20, charged with three counts of homicide, one count of attempted homicide and one count of unlawful restraint in the killing of his girlfriend’s sister, father and grandmother on Friday, was denied bail Saturday by a judge in suburban Rolling Meadows. AP Photo/Hoffman Estates Police Department Copyright 2009 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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