Jetonne Whitehead told jurors Monday she was something of a caretaker for her brother Deon Perry.

She went to his Gary apartment at the Willows on Clark Road nearly daily or multiple times a day to help him with things like his laundry.

A diabetic, Perry was suffering from presumed complications. He was blind in one eye and had neuropathy in his feet. He struggled to walk sometimes and sleep.

On Feb. 4, she left. When she returned the next day, her brother’s roommate, Jeremy Worley, was gone.

She found her brother’s body face down in a bedroom with something “black” wrapped around or near his neck.

“I knew he was dead,” she told prosecutors.

Worley, 50, is charged May 14 with murder and a habitual offender enhancement in the Feb. 4 or Feb. 5, 2024 death of Perry, 60, of Gary.

He has

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