Chicago-Area 17-Year-Old Pleads Not Guilty in Triple Slaying

A man stands and looks at the home in Bolingbrook, Ill., on March 6, 2023, where three people were fatally shot, and another person was wounded Sunday night. Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune via AP

BOLINGBROOK, Ill.—A suburban Chicago teenager pleaded not guilty Tuesday in the fatal shootings of his 17-year-old girlfriend, a 9-year-old girl and the child’s father.

Byrion Montgomery, 17, appeared before a Will County judge in Joliet. Montgomery is charged as an adult with multiple crimes, including first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder and home invasion.