CHICAGO _ Two men have been charged with the strangulation death of a 76-year-old landlord whose body was found nearly two months after it was hidden in a sewer in the Englewood neighborhood on the South Side, according to Chicago police.
Elijah Green, 25, and Tony Green, 22, were arrested over the weekend and charged with first-degree murder. They live in the 6200 block of South May Street, where the body of Vasudeva Kethireddy was discovered on Sept. 28 after police got a tip.
Police said Kethireddy, from Rolling Meadows, had been last seen in that area collecting rents on Aug. 4.
Kethireddy's white 2005 Toyota Prius was found Aug. 7 near 60th and May streets, authorities said. Its license plates had been removed.
His son, Shantan Kethireddy, said his father had been collecting rents that day from at least six properties he owned in the Englewood area, depositing checks at an area bank. About 4 p.m., he was seen on video surveillance at a Chase bank branch, where he had withdrawn a large amount of cash, his son said.
Kethireddy said his father was a victim of an attack in Englewood last year when he was robbed of his car and wallet by someone who struck him in the back of the head, knocking him out and hospitalizing him.
Kethireddy said his father chalked it up to a random incident in a community where he had been doing business for at least seven years. His father bought houses, fixed them up and rented them to families.
A reward totaling $11,000 was offered for information about him.
