People v. Burton

The defendant, John Burton, also known as “Insane James,” was indicted on charges of murder and armed violence for the death of John Turner in an incident that occurred on the evening of April 10, 1986, in a vacant parking lot adjacent to a neighborhood tavern. According to the State’s witnesses, Anthony Turner, Charles McKesson, Robert Myles, and Charles Myles, Burton had approached the four witnesses and the victim as the men were getting into the victim’s car in the parking lot after leaving the nearby tavern. The defendant came from behind a newspaper stand in the parking lot and stood in…