Phillip Binder was angry about $2 he said his brother owed him.
So angry, the 33-year-old man stabbed his older sibling to death in front of other family members in their South Side home, prosecutors said.
Phillip Binder first approached his brother Charles outside their home in the 2000 block of West 70th Place, questioning him about the debt early Tuesday morning, Assistant Cook County State’s Attorney Mike O’Malley said at Binder’s bond hearing today.
Once the two were inside, Phillip Binder took a large knife from the kitchen and plunged it once into his 35-year-old brother’s chest, according to O’Malley.
After the stabbing, Phillip allegedly told his aunt: “You’re lucky you didn’t die too,” O’Malley said.
According to the arrest report, the altercation began over a $4 crack cocaine debt.
“It’s a drug thing. You wouldn’t understand. My brother took $4 off of me, and he came at me so I had to do what I had to do,” the police report quoted Phillip Binder as saying.
Binder was ordered held without bond.
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