Robber Arraigned for Beating 70-Year-Old Man so Badly He Couldn’t Speak for 2 Months

Karon Cannon, 24, faces felony charges of armed robbery and aggravated battery in the Aug. 7, 2017, robbery of a 70-year-old man at the Sheridan CTA station. Chicago Police Department

A 24-year-old man was arraigned on Oct. 20 in Cook County Court in Chicago for attacking an elderly man with his fists and an empty liquor bottle.

Karon Cannon beat the elderly victim so severely that the man could not speak for two months.