Police: Transport driver killed Berwyn couple

A Schaumburg man befriended and then killed a disabled Berwyn couple after meeting them through his job as a transport driver for a hospital, prosecutors said.

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Roger Scoby, 40, is charged with first-degree murder in the killing of Ira and Tommie Moore on March 30. On Saturday, Cook County Judge Peggy Chiampas ordered him held without bond.

During Scoby's appearance in court, prosecutors said he met Ira Moore, 67, while driving for a private company that serves a local hospital. Scoby also has driven for Uber, prosecutors said. The two struck up a friendship and Scoby would come to the home the older man shared with his wife Tommie Moore, 70, and bring beer, prosecutors said.

Ira Moore was a double amputee who used a wheelchair; Tommie Moore had Alzheimer’s disease and dementia, prosecutors said.

Outside court, Moore family spokesman Andrew Holmes, a community activist, said the family is "still crying."

Ira Moore "was befriended and betrayed, and that's tough," Holmes said.

On March 30, Scoby had gone to the home in the 3000 block of South Oak Park Avenue to drop something off, police said. The couple used his services as a transport driver and he had brought them food and medicine in the past, police said.

Scoby first shot Ira Moore in the back of the head with one of Moore's guns, according to prosecutors and court records. Tommie Moore approached, and Scoby shot her and stabbed her in the chest with a kitchen knife, Assistant Cook County state's attorney Patrick Ferrell said.

Scoby took the guns and left, according to Ferrell.

The couple's nephew, who lives upstairs, came downstairs early the next morning and saw his relatives in pools of blood. A lengthy knife was still protruding from Tommie Moore's chest, Ferrell said.

Upon his arrest, Scoby confessed, Ferrell said. Officers found guns belonging to Moore in his possession, Ferrell said. Investigators also found a beer bottle at the Moore home marked with Scoby's fingerprints, Ferrell said.

Scoby's motive for the attack was vague – he said he simply lost control, Detective Thomas Tate said Friday.

As sheriff's deputies led him from court, Scoby waved to his elderly grandmother in the gallery and she leaned on a cane. She declined to comment.

Outside court, Holmes said, "You have to watch who your friends are."

Scoby has a 1994 conviction for armed robbery and he was sentenced to 10 years in prison, according to court records.