• "This defendant was so angry with his mother that he bludgeoned and repeatedly stabbed her in a f...

    “This defendant was so angry with his mother that he bludgeoned and repeatedly stabbed her in a fit of rage,” Assistant State’s Attorney Ann Celine O’Hallaren said as the murder trial got under way Wednesday. “She threatened to stab him in the eye, Rob Lyons reacted,” Assistant Public Defender Valerie Pacis countered. “That reaction was not intended, that reaction was not planned.” After killing his 61-year-old mother, Lyons, who is expected to testify in his own defense, poured several household chemicals on her body, then changed clothes and went shopping at several stores, O’Hallaren said. He was arrested hours later hanging out at a Hooters restaurant in Schaumburg, she said. Read more here.