Sad and very dark news from Gazettextra.com in Janesville, Wisconsin:
Former Wisconsin football player Marcus Randle El, who played wide receiver for the Badgers from 2004 through 2007 and is the brother of former Pittsburgh Steeler wide receiver Antwaan Randle El, was arrested and charged Saturday night with two counts of homicide in the killing of two women on Monday, Feb. 10.
Randle El turned himself in to authorities on Saturday at the Second District of the Chicago Police Department.
Janesville Police Lieutenant Charles Aagaard said Randle El is the only suspect at this point in last week’s shooting homicides that killed Seairaha J. Winchester, 30, of Janesville, and former Janesville resident Brittany N. McAdory, 28.
More from the Gazettextra.com story:
Aagaard indicated that because Randle El was arrested in Illinois for a crime committed in Wisconsin, he would face a legal extradition process.
Janesville police were in Chicago when Randle El turned himself in, Aagaard said. Investigators believe Randle El took an SUV the women had been in early Feb. 10 before they were shot and killed.
Investigators believe Randle El stole the SUV after the shootings and later abandoned it along Interstate 294 near Justice, Illinois, in suburban Chicago.
Aagaard, flanked at the press conference by Janesville Police Chief David Moore, said the investigation is still active.
Randle El, as of Saturday afternoon, had not yet confessed to the killings even though he turned himself in.
Randle El was arrested and charged with felony home invasion and child abduction in 2014 for a separate incident involving his former girlfriend, who was also the mother of his young daughter. The child was safely returned to her mother at the end of that series of events. Nothing in this story on the two Janesville killings is believed to be connected to that past incident. The nature of Randle El’s relationship with the two women who were killed remains unclear.
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