Destiny Huggins and Natalie Negray.Photo:gofundme, legacy.com
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A sex offender who was charged last week with the murder of a 10-year-old Illinois girl is now believed to be responsible for the death of a 24-year-old suburban woman days prior, police say, according to multiple reports.Schaumburg police told Chicago area television stationWGNthat evidence suggests Antonio Monroe, who was charged last week with the murder of 10-year-old Destiny Huggins in Rockford, Ill., is also connected to the death of Natalie Negray.Negray, 24, was found dead in a hotel room on July 5 in Schaumburg, Ill., a northwest suburb of Chicago. Her cause of death — and whether Monroe is responsible — is still under investigation, according to localABC7 News.
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The girls’ aunt, Ashley Taylor, told CBS2 she hopes Monroe winds up “rotting in hell” for the alleged crimes.“You took away somebody that was precious, somebody that liked to play outside, somebody that enjoyed the Rock House [a Rockford non-profit for inner city kids]. She was a good girl playing with her sisters," Taylor said, according to CBS2.
Taylor said Huggins liked “pink and purple, and dancing,” and told others in the neighborhood that “if you want to celebrate her, play some music.”
AGoFundMewas set up to aid Huggins’ family with funeral expenses. “No mother should have to bare the loss of a child,” the page read alongside a photo of Huggins, reading that she is “forever in our hearts.”CBS2 reported that Monroe has been on the sex offender registry since 2010 when he was charged with sexual assault after raping a 19-year-old girl at knifepoint, serving three years of a six-year prison sentence.
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source: people.com
