A 28-year-old man awaiting trial on charges of having sex with an 11-year-old girl tried to hire someone to kill the child and her family, the Cook County sheriff's office announced today.
Brian Thurman, of the 2400 block of North Mannheim Road near Melrose Park, was charged Jan. 13 with predatory criminal sexual assault and is being held at Cook County Jail in lieu of $480,000 bond, according to a sheriff's release.
While in jail, on Jan. 29 Thurman asked another inmate with street gang connections to find someone to kill the victim and her family, and the next day he was given the phone number of a sheriff's undercover investigator posing as a hit man, authorities said.
Over the phone Thurman offered his SUV and $8,000 for the slayings, and during a jail visit on Feb. 4 he met with the fake hit man and repeated the contract, police said.
In return for his Mercury Mountaineer and $8,000, Thurman wanted his 11-year-old victim, her 16-year-old sister and their mother murdered "as soon as possible," the sheriff's office said.
Thurman now faces additional charges of murder for hire and solicitation of murder for hire, both Class X felonies, and is scheduled to appear in Bond Court on Sunday, police said.
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