Chicago. In the early evening hours of February 2, 2013, Iraq war veteran Willie Cook Jr. was gunned down as he sat innocently in his car with his 2-year-old son. April 23, 1992, detectives found Deeondra Dawson, a mother of one, lying in a pool of blood viciously murdered. The monster committed the crime in front of her 4-year-old son. "We lost a father, a friend, a great family man."