Man stole funeral home van with corpse in back, dumped body on Chicago street

An Illinois man allegedly stole a funeral home van with a corpse interior and then dumped the lifeless man’s body naked in a Chicago alleyway, according to police and own family individuals.

Deon Howard, 23, who stays at massive, stole the vehicle on Saturday from outside of the Collins and Stone Funeral Home in Rockford, in keeping with the Rockford Police Department.

The deceased body of forty seven-yr-antique Curtis Brown was within the shipment location of the van, police said.

On Sunday, Chicago police found the van inside the 1400 block of East 87th Street, however Brown’s frame became now not inner.

The next day, the body changed into determined within the 8200 block of South Manistee Avenue in Chicago — about a hundred miles from the funeral home, according to police.

“They discovered my toddler. He become dumped in an alley butt-bare. He had on no clothes,” Brown’s devastated mother, Cindy Howard, told WGN-TV.

Man stole funeral home van with corpse in back, dumped body on Chicago street

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Howard, who lives in Mississippi said her son — a father of 12 — died all at once of a coronary heart assault last week. She advised the information outlet she didn’t even analyze he changed into lacking until hours before he was found.

The funeral domestic director, Brandy Collins, was lately fined $10,000 for “unprofessional conduct, failure to account for private property, and aiding and helping unlicensed exercise” and is on probation through May of 2023, in step with WGN-TV. Brown’s own family is annoying that she be forced to close her doors.