By Megan Crepau @ ChicagoTribune.com, Nov. 6 with good accompanying slideshow of crime scene

A Chicago man killed his girlfriend, her mother and her sister in an eruption of rage after his girlfriend declined to cook him breakfast and braid his hair one morning this summer, Cook County prosecutors said Friday.

John Matthews' girlfriend gave police a videotaped statement identifying him as the shooter before she succumbed to a gunshot wound. And Matthews' own grandmother — who witnessed the whole attack — also told authorities that he was the killer, prosecutors alleged.

Matthews, 25, fled to Iowa after the triple shooting in June and was only arrested after getting into a car accident there in August, authorities said. He was extradited back to Illinois this week on the murder warrant.

Judge Charles Beach II ordered him held without bail Friday on three counts of first-degree murder, noting that “his own flesh and blood has identified him as the shooter.” Matthews' attorney, Assistant Public Defender Rocio Armendariz, said in court Matthews has no previous criminal history and had worked for Amazon [...]