Parolee Indicted for 14-Count Murder of Fil-Am Nurse |
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By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA (© 2011 Journal Group Link International) C HICAGO (jGLi) – A 36-year-old parolee was indicted Wednesday (Dec. 7) with 14-count murder in the brutal attack last October of Filipino American nurse Virginia Perillo before the Cook County Circuit Court in Chicago’s south side. A Clerk of Court source said that although, there was only one victim in the attack, the 14-count murder considers “different ways and intents” that contributed to the brutal killing. Raymond Harris, a resident of 7100 Block of South Yale in He will be up for arraignment on Dec. 28 at Harris, who is on parole for an attempted murder conviction, was arrested after stealing the wedding and engagement rings of the victim, Perillo, 73, and used them to propose to his girlfriend. If found guilty of murder, Harris could be sentenced to a maximum life in prison without parole. There is no death penalty in Prosecutors said Harris, who was paroled in May, attacked Perillo as she was getting out of her car in her garage in the 3300 block of Perillo, a native of Cagayan de Oro City in the Philippines, sustained serious head wounds and was found lying unconscious by a neighbor, who was trying to close her garage door that was open. An intensive critical care nurse of the Prosecutors say on the night of the attack, Harris went to a party, wearing “brand new clothes” and showed the rings to a witness, asking which of them he should use to propose to his girlfriend. Harris later used both rings. It was the When police contacted Harris’ fiancé, she turned the rings over to the detectives and Perillo’s family identified them as hers. Harris was paroled in May after serving 13 years of a 30-year sentence for his 1997 attempted murder and aggravated arson convictions, according In that case, Harris broke into a woman’s home, raped and beat her for several hours, Howlett said. He also threatened that victim at knifepoint, cut her neck and set three separate fires in the woman’s home, Howlett said. The woman woke up with her legs on fire and suffered third-degree burns. Just three weeks before that attack, Harris had been released from prison for a 1993 armed robbery, vehicular invasion and burglary. In that case, Harris brandished a gun at a woman getting outside of her car outside her home, Howlett said. Perillo’s son, Michael Perillo, 32, the youngest of Perillo's three children, all boys, told this reporter in an interview that M rs. Perillo’s husband, Mauro Perillo, 75, is a native of Polangui, Albay in the Editor’s Note: To contact the author, please e-mail him at: (lariosa_jos@sbcglobal.net)
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