A 27-year-old short-term employee has been charged with homicide in suburban Illinois after allegedly killing one worker and wounding two others on the auto elements facility he’d been assigned to by his company earlier this month, police mentioned Saturday.
Charles C. McKnight Jr, of Chicago, was confronted by staff Saturday morning on the WeatherTech facility in Bolingbrook after he “allegedly robbed two co-workers, stealing a watch and a wallet at gun point,” Bolingbrook Police Chief Mike Rompa mentioned in a launch. “When confronted an argument ensued and the offender pulled out a handgun and shot three co-workers.”
Central Hightower, 37, of Plainfield, was killed, police mentioned. Another 25-year-old man was in vital situation Saturday night whereas a 43-year-old man was shot however handled and launched earlier than midday.
McKnight, who had been assigned to the job by the employment company on 9 June, fled the constructing and was briefly at massive earlier than being apprehended in the back of a close-by residence, police mentioned.
Officers recovered a handgun and the stolen property however the capturing “did not appear to be premeditated,” the discharge continued.
The scene of the crime is a distribution middle for WeatherTech merchandise and is a part of the corporate’s headquarters campus about 40 miles southwest of Chicago.
McKnight has been charged with one depend of first diploma homicide, two counts of tried first diploma homicide and extra expenses are pending, based on the discharge.
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