Tinley Park teen Mia Maro killed by her father weeks before high school graduation, police say

Mia Maro, 17, was discovered crushed to loss of life inside her south suburban residence Sunday night time within the 7800-block of West 167th Road, Tinley Park police mentioned.

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Muhammed Almaru, 42, is charged with first-degree homicide, in keeping with police.

Tinley Park police had been referred to as to the house by Almaru’s sister. When responding officers encountered Almaru, he had self-inflicted wounds to his wrists and throat and had ingested tablets, in keeping with Tinley Park Police Chief Matthew Walsh.

Neighbors mentioned he was taken away on a stretcher as different family members arrived, distraught. They described a chaotic scene, with a lot shouting.

Walsh mentioned Almaru was intubated and stays hospitalized at Advocate Christ Medical Middle. He’s not cooperating with the investigation.

“We had been in a position to acquire sufficient, in working with the state’s lawyer for a few days, sufficient the place they had been snug charging him with first diploma homicide,” Walsh mentioned.

At this level, a motive isn’t identified however particulars revealed in court docket about what might have led to her loss of life are onerous to fathom.

Prosecutors mentioned Maro and her father had argued in latest days about her attending promenade, and she or he allegedly crashed her father’s automobile final week. Discovered within the residence was a letter allegedly written by her father wherein he admitted to beating Mia after discovering she had lied to him, prosecutors mentioned.

Police additionally discovered a bent steel pole and rubber mallet allegedly used within the homicide.

Maro’s loss of life was dominated a murder brought on by “a number of accidents,” the health worker’s workplace mentioned. Her physique was discovered on a decrease degree of the house.

Walsh mentioned Wednesday that she had bruising throughout her physique.

“Individuals are traumatized by this,” Walsh mentioned. “It is completely tragic.”

He additionally mentioned his officers are getting counseling after investigating the incident.

“A number of law enforcement officials have been calling me,” he mentioned. “They’ve kids the identical age, they know this woman, they like this woman, they’re associates along with her.”

The principal of Andrew Excessive College, the place Maro was a senior, shared the information with the college’s neighborhood in a letter Monday, writing partly, “In the present day is a really unhappy day for the Andrew Excessive College Neighborhood as we grieve the lack of senior pupil Mia Maro… We lengthen our condolences to Mia’s household and ask that everybody maintain Mia of their ideas and prayers.”
Associates and classmates flocked to a rising memorial exterior her household’s residence to pay tribute to Maro on Monday night time.

“She was just a few weeks away from graduating, and it is a very completely happy time, and simply to have life reduce quick like that’s simply actually very, very unhappy,” mentioned Andrew Brescia, neighbor.

Directors at Andrew Excessive College mentioned counselors can be readily available all week for her classmates.

Household mentioned Maro wished to be a dental hygienist however was planning to attend school near residence with the intention to maintain caring for her mom.