A Chatham landlord was charged with sexually assaulting a tenant in the same apartment where he reportedly killed another woman, according to Chicago police.Jerry Powe, 58, was charged with first-degree murder, aggravated sexual assault with a weapon and aggravated kidnapping, police said.Police rec eived a 911 call about 9:20 a.m. Thursday from a friend of a 28-year-old woman who reported being sexually assaulted at gunpoint by her landlord at an apartment in the 8100 block of South Ellis Avenue, according to reports from the Chicago police and the city’s Office of Emergency Management and Communication.The 28-year-old woman said while the attack happened, she noticed another woman who “may be dead” on a couch, according to the reports.Around the same time, Powe walked into the Grand Crossing District police station and “admitted to killing victim by strangulation,” according to the police report.When police conducted a well-being check at the Ellis Avenue address, they reported finding the door locked, and no one answering. Fire department crews opened the door and found the unresponsive victim, an unidentified 36-year-old woman, unclothed and covered in a sheet, on a couch in the living room, according to the report.She was pronounced dead on the scene by the University of Chicago Medical Center, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.Powe, who was scheduled to appear in court Saturday, has been charged in dozens of criminal cases in Cook County dating back to at least 1985, court records show. Some of the cases have centered on allegations of sexual violence and domestic battery.In 1988, Powe pleaded guilty to two counts of aggravated criminal sexual assault and was sentenced to six years in state prison, records show. He was charged in that case in 1987, just two weeks after he pleaded guilty to criminal sexual abuse and was placed on probation.He was later sentenced to 10 years in prison in 1992 after pleading guilty to armed robbery, according to the court records. That same day, he pleaded guilty to another violent felony and got two years in prison.Since then, he’s been sent to prison in separate arson, illegal gun possession and aggravated battery cases, records show. In the latter case, he was also charged with counts of attempted first-degree murder.Powe was most recently placed on probation for two years after pleading guilty to burglary in 2019, records show.Tom Schuba contributed. ...read more read less