Jan. 29--A man found beaten at his home in August died from his injuries this week, authorities determined after an autopsy Thursday.
Lester Weatherspoon, 64, was found injured Aug. 30 at his home in the 2700 block of West Harrison Street, and was pronounced dead at 5:05 a.m. Wednesday at RML Specialty Hospital in Hinsdale, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office. After an autopsy Thursday, the office determined Weatherspoon died from complications from blunt force trauma to the head in an assault, and his death was ruled a homicide.
Police were called to the Harrison Street address about 4 p.m. Aug. 30 by someone who discovered a person injured, and officers found a 64-year-old man battered there, said Officer Kevin Quaid, a police spokesman.
No one has been charged in connection with Weatherspoon's killing.
Weatherspoon was an unregistered sex offender and convicted murderer, according to Illinois State Police and court records. He pleaded guilty in a 1997 sex assault and sex abuse case involving a 13-year-old girl, and was sentenced to 20 years in prison but was released by 2013, according to state police and court records.
Weatherspoon previously had served time for the Dec. 1, 1973, murder of Alberto Luna, a stock clerk at Gino's Food Mart at Ohio and Trumbull streets that happened while Weatherspoon and another man robbed the store for the second time in two months, according to court records. He was found guilty by a jury and sentenced to 25 to 50 years for the murder.
