A planned 11 a.m. July 6 gathering in a public parking lot outside Pinckneyville Correctional Center to remember the late Earl Little has been canceled.
The gathering originally was scheduled by relatives and friends of Little, a former Pinckneyville prison inmate who was found dead on the top bunk of his cell on July 6, 2018.
Little’s loved ones believe he was strangled to death; no one has been charged in connection with his death.
Earl Little s sister wants Springfield man charged with murder
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Family wants Perry County, state to take action in death of inmate
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More than two years is a long time to wait for authorities to decide whether to charge a former Springfield man in the alleged strangulation death of a prison cellmate, the attorney for the dead man’s family says.
Chicago lawyer David Lipschultz said he hasn’t received answers from Rob Jeffreys, acting director of the Illinois Department of Corrections, or David Searby Jr., state’s attorney for Perry County.
Lipschultz, who represents the family of Earl Little, formerly of Rushville and Quincy, sent a letter Nov. 18 to Jeffreys and Searby asking why former Springfield resident Daniel Mueller, 33, hasn’t been charged with any crimes in connection with Little’s death.