Szalonek was still in the woman’s basement, where police took him into custody without incident, documents show. He was charged with first-degree murder and remains in custody on $2.5 million bail.<\/p>\n
Fifty-one-year-old Brian Szalonek’s body was found in an upstairs bedroom of his home with a firearm nearby. Police recovered metal fragments from inside the bedroom near the body.<\/p>\n
A search warrant inventory indicates that more than 10 guns were found in the house, mostly shotguns and rifles, plus numerous boxes of ammunition.<\/p>\n
Deputy Chief Ed Urban of the Algonquin Police Department confirmed that a shotgun was used in the murder.<\/p>\n
Police also found articles called “How TV Violence Controls Kids’ Minds” and “Toxic TV: Is TV Violence Contributing to Aggression in Kids?”<\/p>\n
According to court documents, more than one order of protection previously had been taken out by David Szalonek’s mother, Jerilyn, against the victim. She accused her husband of physical abuse and withholding financial assistance to the family in incidents dating back as far as 1987.<\/p>\n
Emergency orders of protection were granted, but the cases was dismissed before a longer order was entered.<\/p>\n
Bernie Jayne, who worked with Brian Szalonek for about 20 years at UPS, said the orders of protection paint an unfair picture of him.<\/p>\n
“Those things happened a long time ago and I don’t think that’s a fair assessment of who he was,” Jayne said.<\/p>\n
Jayne said he last saw Brian Szalonek the Friday before he died, when they made bets on who would win the Super Bowl. He never mentioned troubles with his sons or his wife, Jayne said.<\/p>\n
“We played golf probably six months ago and when we came home, we all sat out on the patio and had a really nice time,” Jayne said. “I don’t know what goes on behind closed doors, but I think they were happy.”<\/p>\n
Read the original article from the Northwest Herald<\/a>.<\/p>\n Distributed via Chicago Press Release Services<\/a><\/p>\n ALGONQUIN — David Szalonek told a young woman that he killed his father the night of the shooting, according to court documents. Police were called to the 16-year-old’s house at 1461 Westbourne Parkway in Algonquin about 7:45 p.m. Feb. 8 after a 911 call indicating that there was a deceased person there. A short time […]<\/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-330532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330532","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=330532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/img><\/a>
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