‘Planned to steal some weed:’ Nephew stabbed and bludgeoned uncle, 2 friends to death during card game

Anthony Jones, top left inset, Cordell Reed, bottom left inset, and Nathaniel Nate Gentry, bottom right inset, were killed while they played a card game. Reed

Anthony Jones, top left inset, Cordell Reed, bottom left inset, and Nathaniel Gentry, bottom right inset, were killed while they played a card game. Reed’s nephew, Cloanger Robinson, top right inset, was sentenced to life in prison for the killings. (Crime scene screenshot from WCIA/YouTube; Mug shot from Danville Police Department via WCIA; Victims’ photos from their obituaries)

An Illinois man was sentenced to life in prison after he turned his uncle’s card game into a nightmare by stabbing and bludgeoning him and two friends to death one night in 2020.

Cloanger Robinson, 22, was sentenced on Tuesday to life in prison in the killings of his uncle, Cordell J. Reed Sr., 67, and Reed’s friends Nathaniel N. Gentry, 65, and Anthony D. Jones, 60, the Vermilion County State’s Attorney’s Office announced in a news release. Robinson was found guilty of first-degree murder on May 24.

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