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A family is at odds with 'professional squatter' with a long criminal history who has taken over their dead mom's house and refused to leave for the past six months.
Chicago resident Darthula Young revealed her family's predicament this week, calling ex-convict Takito Murray a 'professional' scammer' for taking up residence in her late mother's Chatham home since September.
Explaining the increasingly common plight in a sitdown interview, Young said she became aware of Murray's scheme days after her mom's death, arriving at the senior's longtime duplex to find a bullet hole in the front window.
Upon closer inspection, Young would soon realize that the locks to the two-story duplex that has been in her family for generations were changed as well.
Eventually, Young would realize Murray was the culprit, capitalizing on her mother's death to overtake the home she had owned for more than 30 years.
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The two-story home in Chatham - seen here - has been illegally occupied since September
Ex-convict Takito Murray, a career criminal who has been cuffed for drug- and weapons-related offenses at least six times since 2017,illegally moved in September, and has since refused to leave
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Speaking to CBS Chicago, Young says that since coming to that realization, police have remained unreceptive to her and her relatives ongoing struggle to remove Murray, telling her she will need to wait more than half a year for the crime ridden city's court system to properly address the infraction.
'It's been a nightmare,' Young said of the city's hesitance to forcible relocate Murray, a career criminal who has been cuffed for drug- and weapons-related offenses at least six times since 2017, and was apparently shot inside the apartment at some point after moving in.
'On September 23, I got a call from the neighbors to say there's been a shooting in the building - and when I went to the building and put my key in, it didn't work,' Young told reporter Charlie De Mar on Thursday.
'The person who had been shot in the apartment – this guy named Takito Murray - came back from the hospital, and informed us and the police that he now lived there, that he had rights.
'He was professional squatter.'
Young would then reveal that, such is the case with most squatter-involved incidents, Illinois law largely prohibits her and her relatives to take any action against the unwelcome guest.
Darthula Young revealed her family's predicament this week, calling an ex-convict who has taken up residence in her late mother's house since September a 'professional' scammer
The home was left vacant by Young's mother (seen here) after her death last year, the Chicago resident said
Laws in the notoriously progressive Prairie State currently bar her family from forcibly removing the tenant, or event turning off the two-flat home's utilities until a proper court order is issued.
