A person accused of throwing a unadorned girl to her demise from his Uptown house window obtained a five-year jail sentence on Thursday, lower than a month after a jury discovered him responsible of involuntary manslaughter.
Prosecutors charged 42-year-old Tyson Tillman with homicide within the July 2022 demise of 31-year-old Tabitha Tanner. They alleged he tossed Tanner from his fifth-floor window after his girlfriend arrived residence.
Surveillance video confirmed Tillman arriving at his constructing within the 4500 block of North Magnolia round 10:09 p.m. on the night time of the defenestration, together with his girlfriend getting into the constructing 38 minutes later, in response to prosecutors. Neighboring doorbell cameras recorded her pacing the hallway for at the very least ten minutes, officers mentioned.
At 10:59 p.m., an exterior digital camera captured Tanner’s bare physique falling into an alley behind the constructing. Moments later, Tillman left his house sporting a crimson shirt, and one other exterior digital camera recorded somebody in a crimson shirt checking on her physique at 11:03 p.m., prosecutors said.
A passerby found Tanner’s physique almost seven hours later and known as 911. The Cook dinner County Medical Examiner’s Workplace decided she died from accidents sustained in a fall from a peak, together with a damaged leg, facial trauma, and a lacerated coronary heart.
When police first interviewed Tillman on the scene, he denied figuring out something about what occurred, prosecutors mentioned. However he later admitted that he and Tanner have been concerned in a bodily altercation inside his house, that her clothes got here off in the course of the battle, and that she fell from the window, prosecutors mentioned.
Nevertheless, when investigators took Tillman in for questioning, an officer’s body-worn digital camera allegedly recorded him saying in a telephone name, “I threw the b***h out the window.”
Tillman has been in custody since police arrested him in 2022. He earned 1,247 days of credit score whereas in jail, sufficient time to greater than fulfill his jail time period. Decide Michael Clancy dealt with the case and sentenced Tillman.
