The family of Curtis Brown, whose body was in a Rockford, Illinois funeral home van when it was stolen wants answers.
Rockford man Deon Howard is charged and wanted for the theft of a Collins & Stone funeral home van with a body inside over the weekend.When Ed Brown was informed that a van containing his brother's body had been stolen from a funeral home in Rockford over the weekend, he was incensed.
Authorities were able to locate Curtis Brown's body Monday in the 8200-block of South Manistee Avenue in South Chicago. His body was transported back to the Winnebago County Coroner's Office in Rockford. They are now working on sending Curtis Brown to his final resting place in Mississippi, where he grew up and most of his family still lives, Ed Brown said. Curtis moved to Rockford about six years ago with an aunt.
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