The mother of a murder victim – a former girlfriend of Bulls player Eddy Curry -- today said that her daughter's convicted killer has left "forever a hole in our hearts."
A Cook County jury convicted Chicago attorney Frederick Goings, 40, Tuesday night on two counts of first-degree murder in the 2009 fatal shootings of Nova Henry and her infant daughter, Ava.
"It was like having a building lifted up off my chest," Henry’s mother, Yolan, said of the verdict. "It was elation."
At a news conference with several domestic violence advocates at the courthouse at 26th Street and California Avenue, Henry said her daughter, 24 at the...