Feb. 10--A man jailed on charges of having sex with an 11-year-old girl tried to hire someone to kill the girl, her 16-year-old sister and their mother, according to the Cook County sheriff's office.
Brian Thurman, 28, of the 2400 block of North Mannheim Road near Melrose Park, sought a hit man after he was jailed the middle of last month on charges with predatory criminal sexual assault and ordered held on $480,000 bail, the office said.
On Jan. 29, Thurman asked another inmate with street gang connections to find someone to kill the three, the sheriff's office said. The next day, he was given the phone number of a sheriff's undercover investigator posing as a hit man, authorities said.
Over the phone, Thurman offered the "hit man" his SUV and $8,000, the office said. During a jail visit on Feb. 4, Thurman met the undercover officer and repeated the offer, police said.
In return for his Mercury Mountaineer and the cash, Thurman wanted the 11-year-old girl, her 16-year-old sister and their mother killed "as soon as possible," the sheriff's office said.
Thurman was charged with murder for hire and solicitation of murder for hire, both Class X felonies, and is scheduled to appear in Bond Court on Sunday, police said.
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