By Times Staff | Posted: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 12:00 am | (8) Comments
EAST CHICAGO | An Indianapolis man was charged Tuesday with strangling an East Chicago woman whose son was sleeping nearby, police said.
Tishwanda Reynolds, 19, of the 3400 block of Lincoln Street, was pronounced dead at 10:28 a.m. Monday in the St. Catherine Hospital emergency room, a Lake County coroner's office spokesman said.
Police said she was strangled in her bedroom by a former boyfriend while her 7-month-old son slept nearby Monday morning.
Marcus Matthew II, 22, was charged with murder Tuesday afternoon. He admitted to strangling Reynolds after waking up, "playing and rubbing" her and then being told to "go back to sleep," court documents state.
Reynold's cause of death was listed as apparent trauma to the neck suffered in an apparent homicide.
Matthew told police he strangled her with his hands and a belt, police said.
The child in the room at the time of Reynolds' death was not Matthew's son, East Chicago police Lt. John Nava said.
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