The victim said he has known Palella, of the 1500 block of Norway Lane, Palatine, and Palella’s brother for most of his life, McCarthy said.<\/p>\n
Palella and two co-offenders spent the evening of Sept. 5 at a village festival. Later that night, Palella told the co-offenders he believed the victim had money and a safe at his residence, McCarthy said.<\/p>\n
About 1 a.m., the defendant drove them to the victim’s house where the co-offenders, dressed in dark clothes and skeleton masks, broke down the rear door, shattering the glass, McCarthy said.<\/p>\n
The victim and his roommate heard the commotion and went to the back door to keep out the intruders, McCarthy said. The roommate swung a baseball bat at the offenders, one of whom fired at the victim, said McCarthy.<\/p>\n
A bullet lodged in his chest, said McCarthy. Three others went through his abdomen, right shoulder and arm, she said, but the victim survived.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Palella waited for the co-offenders, who ran back to his truck and removed their masks, McCarthy said. As Palella drove them home, the men recounted what happened, McCarthy said.<\/p>\n
Palella later admitted his part in the incident to a witness in a tape-recorded conversation, McCarthy said. The defendant was not aware he was being recorded at the time. He also made statements to Rolling Meadows police, she said.<\/p>\n
Palella has a pending misdemeanor theft case in Rolling Meadows. He also has five felony convictions, including two for theft in 2006.<\/p>\n
For those charges, as well as a 2007 conviction for possession of a controlled substance, he served concurrent terms of two years in prison, McCarthy said.<\/p>\n
He was convicted of deceptive practices in 2005 and sentenced to a year in prison. He received 24 months probation for another deceptive practices charge in 2004.<\/p>\n
An order of protection his mother obtained against him in 2009 is no longer valid, McCarthy said.<\/p>\n
Citing the ongoing investigation, Rolling Meadows police declined to comment on what led to Palella’s arrest and on the status of the co-offenders.<\/p>\n
Palella next appears in court on Feb. 24.<\/p>\n
Read the original article on DailyHerald.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n If winning $100,000 in the Illinois lottery wasn’t enough good fortune, a 41-year-old Rolling Meadows man also survived four gunshot wounds to the upper body from men who tried to steal his winnings during a home invasion last year September, according to Cook County prosecutors at a bond hearing Friday for one of the co-defendants. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/img><\/a>
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