Oak Forest police said Monday a second man has been charged in the May 23 death of a 54-year-old man.
Police said Rashee Wyrick, of Chicago, is scheduled to make an initial court appearance Tuesday at the Bridgeview courthouse.
Prosecutors are asking that Wyrick be held pending trial, according to a court document.
Charged with first-degree murder, Wyrick joins co-defendant Michael Protho charged with the death of Edward Lewis. Protho is also being held pending trial.
Police said Saturday members of the Illinois Department of Corrections and the U.S. Marshals Service’s Great Lakes Regional Fugitive Task Force took 32-year-old Wyrick into custody.
Wyrick and Protho entered the home through a window and Lewis was beaten with a blunt object, authorities said.
Lewis lived in the home in the 15500 block of Long Avenue in Oak Forest for about a year and previously lived in Elburn, authorities said.
Protho, of the 9300 block of South Paxton Avenue, was arrested May 24 after leading police on a high-speed chase, according to prosecutors.
Police said Lewis was found May 23 dead in the living room of the home by a family friend, according to court documents.
He suffered a blunt force trauma to the head, and police, during a subsequent search of the home, found several pounds of cannabis along with other narcotics, according to the court documents.
Police said the home was ransacked, and it appeared to investigators there was a “strong connection to narcotic sales.”
Court records state Protho had a previous robbery conviction involving the blunt-force beating of an elderly victim in Hazel Crest.
Protho also was sentenced, in October 2022, to 42 months in prison and two years’ probation on a federal charge of unlawful transport of firearms, according to court records.
