Chicago killer released from prison and commits another murder; Family of victim looking for answers

Ex-con killer, Douglas Askew is locked up again on fresh murder charges.

In 1989 Askew murdered his pregnant 15-year old girlfriend and wounded some of her relatives. He was sentenced to 40 years in state prison, but was released after 20 years only to repeat the same crime. He killed another one of his girlfriends and wounded her niece.

Authorities say the victim is 52-year-old Sylvia Brice. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, Askew and Brice were no longer together at the time of the incident. Askew was waiting inside of Brice’s home on the 9300 block of South Wentworth Avenue when Brice and her niece, Montra Tuffour, arrived there on December 31, 2016. Askew began stabbing Brice’s niece with a large kitchen knife and when Brice intervened, he stabbed her as well.

Brice was pronounced dead at the scene and her niece survived with 6 stab wounds.

It has been months since the incident occurred and the family of Sylvia Brice wants answers. They want to know why Askew served only 20 years of a 40-year sentence, had numerous other criminal arrests when he got out, but was still out on the streets to con and kill.

The family has hired Chicago attorney Marty Dolan to look into the case.

"We want to challenge what's is going on here," said Dolan. "There's got to be mechanisms in place in these situations-where you got an ex-murderer coming out, now he's on a domestic, he's in court and as soon as somebody realizes from records he's on parole --there has to be something that's done."

Askew's next court appearance is in January and Brice’s family hope to get some answers by then.