I should not have been surprised by this story earlier this week:

(Elgin resident Kristian) Branch and a Rockford man, Mario Charles, went to a room in the Homestead Studio Suites Hotel (in Schaumburg) early Tuesday intending to rob a woman, Assistant State’s Atty. Maria McCarthy said. At gunpoint, Charles ordered everyone to the floor, told them to remove their clothes and demanded their money, she said.

An intended victim, a 26-year-old Minnesota man, took out a gun and started shooting, hitting Charles in the chest and abdomen, McCarthy said….

Charles and Branch fled, but he collapsed outside the hotel and died later Tuesday. …

Branch is charged with first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder and attempted armed robbery.

It turns out this is hardly the first time an alleged armed robber has been charged with murder after his accomplice — “cofelon” as the law puts it — was killed during the commission of a crime.

Here’s the summary of another case: