DUMB TEEN KILLS DAD IN BOTCHED ROBBERY

DUMB MATT AND PALS

THEY CALLED him Dumb Matt. Well, maybe. 'I know,' said Matthew G. Nellessen, 19, 'let's rob dad and then we'll kill him.' The Arlington Heights, Ill. teen is now charged with murdering his father George Nellessen after he and buddies botched a robbery at their suburban home. And apparently, this dumb violent act was a long time coming.

Matthew Nellessen “has been trouble all his life,” his grandmother, Betty J. Zak, mother of the slain man told the Chicago Sun-Times. Her grandson dropped out of high school and had a string of problems related to substance abuse, she said. George Nellessen’s

wife, Laura — the mother of the teen — died in 2004, Zak said. Nelleseen, 55, was a took-and-die maker.

George Nellessen, 55, worked in the tool-and-die industry. Three others also were charged with murder and robbery: Marlon L. Green, 20, of the 4200 block of South St. Lawrence; Armon Braden, 20, of the 730 block of East 83rd, and Azari M. Braden, 19, of the 2000 block of South Michigan, all of Chicago, cops said.

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