CHICAGO -- After more than nine years, Richard Vanecko, the nephew of Chicago's longest-serving mayor Richard Daley, pleaded guilty Friday to involuntary manslaughter in...
A 43-year-old St. Louis man has been charged with first-degree murder and armed criminal action after he allegedly shot his uncle to death over an argument debating the appropriate name of the meat they were preparing to cook, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch[1]. SEE ALSO: Tennis And Our Problem With Black Women’s Bodies[2] John Cunningham (pictured) reportedly got into the deadly dispute with his maternal uncle, Lessie Lowe, 44, at the uncle’s St. Louis home on Monday night. In the middle of preparing the meat, the men disagreed over whether the cuts were pork steaks, which Cunningham believed was the proper term. Lowe argued they were pork chops. Want to Keep Up With NewsOne.com? LIKE Us On Facebook! The disagreement became physical around 1 p.m. and the men had to be separated. But, Cunningham went to another room, got a shotgun and shot his uncle dead. Lowe died at a local hospital of his injuries. SEE ALSO: Is Breaking Up To Make Up A Game For Fools?[3] Here is what a family member had to ...
