Fox News host Laura Ingraham increased a reward fund for anyone who could help locate the killer of a 15-year-old Chicago boy from $15,000 to $20,000.
The 56-year-old host has taken an interest in the death of Demetrius Griffin Jr., who was found dead in a trash can in September 2016. An autopsy showed he had been burned alive.
Three years later, Ingraham said during a special Friday night Chicago town hall that she was increasing reward money that had been set up by the family from $15,000 to $20,000.
“They burnt him beyond recognition,” Rochelle Sykes, Griffin Jr.’s aunt, told Ingraham.
“We don’t have any values anymore,” she added.
Ingraham tore into Chicago over their lack of murders solved.
“One in 6 murders are solved in this city. One in 6. It’s the lowest solving murders rate in the country. The worst, it’s called clearance rate in the country,” the host said Friday night on her show.
“It’s not acceptable,” Polly Sykes, the mother of Griffin Jr., said about Chicago’s unsolved murders.
The host held a similar town hall two years ago when the reward for finding Griffin Jr.’s killer was $10,000.
