Teenager charged in flight attendant’s death

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CROWN POINT, Ind. (AP) — A Merrillville teenager was charged
Friday with murder in the slaying of a United Airlines flight attendant
whose body was found wrapped in plastic bags in the trunk of her car in
a wooded area in Gary.
Damarius Wren is charged with murder in
the death of 54-year-old DeCarol Deloney-Cain, 54, of Crown Point. Court
records show Wren was being held at the Lake County Jail without bail
and did not indicate whether he has hired an attorney. No date has been
set for a hearing.
According to the probable cause affidavit,
Deloney-Cain’s daughter, Alyssa Barrett, told police Wren was her
boyfriend and that he had planned to rob her mother in early July
because he knew that’s when she was paid. She said it never happened,
though, because her mother was killed.
An autopsy determined
Deloney-Cain died from blunt force trauma to her head and multiple stab
wounds to her chest. Her body was found Monday.
Barrett told
police that her mother didn’t know Wren was at the house when she
arrived home on July 3. Barrett told police Wren was hiding from
Deloney-Cain, then put a pillow case over her head and began slamming
her head on the basement stairs. Barrett said he then got a knife from
the kitchen and began stabbing Deloney-Cain, according to the affidavit.
She
told police that two of Wren’s friends then helped him wrap the body in
plastic and drive the body in her mother’s car to Gary.
Police said Wren told them he lost control and attacked Deloney-Cain, causing her death.

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