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Daily Chronicle photos of the late DeKalb County Sheriff Roger Scott, who died Feb. 23, 2025, surrounded by family. Scott was sheriff for 36 years and worked in the office since 1969.

A Montgomery man pleaded guilty this month to murdering Chrishun Keeler-Tyus, of DeKalb, in a 2020 gas station shooting, and was sentenced by a judge to 37 years in prison. He's the fourth person to plead guilty in the fatal shooting.

The Waterman village board of trustees president and the law firm representing the village suing that president say they have reached a settlement days before a nearly $28,000 civil dispute would have gone to trial.

A month before an expected jury trial was set to convene, Timothy M. Doll, 31, pleaded guilty Wednesday to murdering DeKalb teenager Gracie Sasso-Cleveland in May 2023. He's expected to be sentenced in April. He faces decades in prison.

As the verdict was read Thursday and family of Patricia Wilson and Robert Wilson wept, Jonathan D. Hurst, found guilty of murdering the elderly mother and her son, sat next to his defense lawyers and appeared to show no reaction.

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It took the jury less than three hours Thursday to find Jonathan D. Hurst guilty of the 2016 murders of Sycamore mother and son Patricia Wilson, 85, and Robert Wilson, 64. The verdict came on the sixth day of trial.

Traces of Jonathan D. Hurst's DNA were found on a pillow and two knives tucked away in a crawl space in the basement laundry room of Patricia and Robert Wilson's rural Sycamore home, a forensic expert testified Wednesday. The Wilsons were found bludgeoned to death in 2016.

Though Jonathan Hurst has denied ever being in Sycamore, a forensic expert testified in a double murder trial Tuesday that Hurst’s fingerprints match those found on multiple items inside the home of Patricia and Robert Wilson. The Wilsons were found beaten to death Aug. 15, 2016.

Two DeKalb police officers were hospitalized Tuesday after a squad car they were in was struck by a stolen vehicle driven by a man who initially gave a false name and fled from authorities, police said. The man also is wanted for homicide out of Georgia.