Retired ex-trooper convicted of killing ex-tenant
Dennis Joyner, 63, a retired Illinois state trooper, was found guilty Thursday of fatally shooting a south suburban man who had rented a property from him in 2012.
On Sept. 11, 2012, Joyner shot his former tenant, 40-year-old Robert Fortson, in a gas station parking lot in the 400 block ofWest 14th Street in Chicago Heights, prosecutors said. Prosecutors said Fortson and his family rented a Park Forest home from Joyner from roughly August 2009 through August 2011. The family moved out after they got into a “dispute” with Joyner over the rental property.