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Man Punched Girlfriend, Killed Man for 'Disrespecting Her': Prosecutors

By Erin Meyer | September 11, 2014 4:25pm | Updated on September 13, 2014 12:39pm
 Robert Dixon and Antwon Williams fatally beat a man in Humboldt Park after the man "disrespected" Dixon's girlfriend, prosecutors said.
Robert Dixon and Antwon Williams fatally beat a man in Humboldt Park after the man "disrespected" Dixon's girlfriend, prosecutors said.
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COOK COUNTY CRIMINAL COURTHOUSE — A man is charged with murder in the fatal beating of a man for disrespecting his girlfriend — the same woman whose tooth he knocked out a few weeks prior, prosecutors said.

Robert Dixon, 26, was charged with murder after prosecutors say he beat another man to death for disrespecting his girlfriend, authorities said.

Dixon pledged to "check the victim for disrespecting [his girlfriend]" after his girlfriend complained about an argument between her and her mother's boyfriend, 53-year-old Raphael Watts, prosecutors said.

Dixon showed up at Watts' Humboldt Park home in the 2600 block of West North Avenue shortly before 10 p.m. on Sept. 4 with Antwon Williams, 33, prosecutors said. 

Prosecutors previously alleged that Williams, a married man, was the 21-year-old's boyfriend. But on Friday, during a brief court hearing, they set the record straight.

The woman let them inside, prosecutors said. 

The two men found Watts watching television in the bedroom he shared with the 21-year-old's mother, prosecutors said. They attacked him, repeatedly striking him in the head and body. 

Dixon and Williams fled, and Watts was taken to the hospital where he died of the injuries he sustained in the beating, authorities said. 

Both men were ordered held on $2 million bail. 

Williams, on parole from the Illinois Department of Corrections since May for a carjacking, has previously been convicted of in numerous drug cases, a theft case and a robbery, prosecutors said. 

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