Alisha M. Walker, 20, of Akron, Ohio, who has a history of prostitution and battery, is accused of stabbing to death 61-year-old Alan Filan in his Orland Park, Ill. home on Saturday, Jan. 18. She is being held without bail in Allen County Jail in Indiana on a first-degree murder warrant until a hearing on Feb. 10.
According to the NY Daily News, Walker waived extradition back to Illinois on Monday and will at some point be returned to Cook County for arraignment on the charge of first-degree murder, the Cook County clerk said.
Filan was found dead on his kitchen floor by police around 10:35 a.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 21, after they were called when the teacher failed to show up for work. The Cook County medical examiner’s office said he had been stabbed multiple times.
“Walker confessed to being at the home of the victim on Jan. 18 after Filan contacted her via the Internet site Backpage,” said Orland Park police. “Walker and Filan argued over money, a struggle ensued, which resulted in Walker stabbing Filan multiple times.”
“Alisha told me she had to [stab Filan]” said Sherri Chatman, mother of the accused. “[T]here was nothing else she could do. The only way I see my baby doing that is if she was in danger, in harm. It was either him or her. I think she freaked out.”