“When you get to hell, beware, I might be in charge,” Dan Gordon said when addressing Kyle Cooper on Thursday, May 22, 2025, in Whiteside County Circuit Court in Morrison. Cooper pleaded guilty to second-degree murder Thursday for the Feb. 14 stabbing death of Gordon's son, Daniel J. Gordon of Rock Falls. (Alex T. Paschal)
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