Sources: Man didn’t like Hispanics, so killed one at random
BY FRANK MAIN
The suspected killer flew from O’Hare Airport to Heathrow Airport in London to flee the country, Chicago Police say.
But his plan hit a snag when he told British authorities he intended to work there. They said no thanks and sent him back to the United States in January, police said.
That’s when U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials at the airport in Newark, N.J., ran his name through a database and discovered he had been arrested in a murder in Chicago.
It turned out that last year, Chicago Police detectives had questioned and released the man, Maurice Hudson, in the Oct. 22 shooting of Jorge Palacious on the West Side.
After the detectives were told Hudson tried to flee the country, they obtained a warrant for his arrest. And after several weeks of fighting extradition, Hudson was returned to Chicago on Thursday.
Area 5 detectives re-interviewed Hudson on Thursday and he confessed to the murder, officials said.
The alleged motive: Hudson, who is black, did not like Hispanics and decided to kill one randomly, sources said.
He found Palacious sitting in traffic and shot him in the 5500 block of West Roosevelt, police said.
Cook County prosecutors approved a murder charge against Hudson on Friday.
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