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A Latin King street gang member convicted of a racketeering conspiracy involving two 1999 northwest Indiana murders claimed in court records this week to be the detainee who assaulted R&B singer R. Kelly in Chicago’s federal jail last month.
Jeremiah Shane Farmer, 39, wrote that “the government made me attack” R. Kelly and that he did so “in hopes of getting spotlight attention and world news notice to shed light on” alleged government corruption.
Farmer’s writings appear in a six-page document filed Tuesday with the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Records show Farmer is representing himself and is still detained at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, where Kelly is also being held.
Kelly has been locked up for more than a year while awaiting trial on child pornography and obstruction of justice charges in Chicago, as well as a racketeering indictment in Brooklyn. His lawyers have tried for months to get him out of jail.
Records show Farmer was convicted last year of a racketeering conspiracy that involved the June 25, 1999, murders of Marion Lowry, 74, and Harvey Siegers, 67, at their Hammond business, Calumet Auto Rebuilders. The feds say the men were beaten to death with a hammer.
Source: Chicago Sun Times
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