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Woodridge man charged with killing father with weed wacker (Illinois)
Chicago Sun-Times ^
| August 15, 2011
| Staff
Posted on 08/15/2011 2:03:07 PM PDT by Graybeard58
A west suburban man has been charged with killing his father with a weed trimmer as he slept early Sunday.
Yashesh S. Desai, 21, of Woodridge is charged with first-degree murder for the death of his 47-year-old father Sanjiv J. Desai, a release from the DuPage County State’s Attorney’s office said.
About 3 a.m. Sunday, Woodridge police responded to the home after getting a 911 call from Desai’s brother telling authorities that Yashesh Desai had just killed his father.
Sanjiv Desai was suffering from massive head wounds when emergency crews arrived. He was taken to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Prosecutors allege the elder Desai was sleeping on a futon in the computer room of his home when Yashesh Desai struck him multiple times in the head with a weed trimmer, resulting in severe trauma to his head. Yashesh Desai was arrested at the scene.
He is scheduled for a bond hearing at the DuPage County Courthouse on Monday afternoon. He faces up to 60 years in prison if convicted.
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posted on
08/15/2011 2:08:52 PM PDT
by
DJ MacWoW
(America! The wolves are here! What will you do?)
To: Graybeard58
I reckon I cut his head clean off.
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posted on
08/15/2011 2:09:35 PM PDT
by
TSgt
(When in the Course of human events...)
To: Graybeard58
How would you like to do time with that guy?
When are you ever going to sleep?
To: Graybeard58
Doesn’t look like the sharpest pencil in the box. Perhaps he took it literally when his father told him that if he didn’t get his bushy hair cut, his father would have to do it with a weed wacker.
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posted on
08/15/2011 2:28:29 PM PDT
by
Opinionated Blowhard
("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
To: Graybeard58
How did the Weed Wacker not wake his father up?
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posted on
08/15/2011 2:35:14 PM PDT
by
Husker24
To: Graybeard58
Meh, the Mafia has been wacking people for years, nothing new here.
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posted on
08/15/2011 2:36:00 PM PDT
by
Las Vegas Ron
(Rush Limbaugh = the Beethoven of talk radio)
To: Graybeard58
One could start a new movie craze based upon this reported set of facts. It would be called the "Illinois Weed Whacker Massacre." It would involve a bunch of wisecracking teens out on a frolic who stop at this gentleman's place. The whacker appears wearing a Hindu Terror mask and picks off the teens one by one. The Weed Whacker removing eyeballs and disemboweling voluptuous females. How could such a movie fail!
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posted on
08/15/2011 3:04:55 PM PDT
by
AEMILIUS PAULUS
(It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
To: Graybeard58
Was his mother also his aunt....just sayin from the picture.
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posted on
08/15/2011 3:17:48 PM PDT
by
Squantos
(Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
To: TSgt
“Some folks call it a sling blade, I call it a Kaiser blade.”
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posted on
08/15/2011 3:47:20 PM PDT
by
dljordan
("Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered.")
To: dljordan
I guess he was ‘bush wacked’.
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posted on
08/15/2011 5:16:53 PM PDT
by
Oiao
To: Oiao
“I guess he was ‘bush wacked’.”
LOL!
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posted on
08/15/2011 7:09:16 PM PDT
by
dljordan
("Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered.")
To: Graybeard58
As one of my rather racist buddies in high school used to say: ‘Is he a push-start or a pull-start?’.
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posted on
08/15/2011 7:15:31 PM PDT
by
Free Vulcan
(Obama/Biden '12: No hope and chump change.)
To: Graybeard58
Okay, have to say it...
When weed-whackers are outlawed, only outlaws will have weed-whackers.
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posted on
08/15/2011 8:05:03 PM PDT
by
IYellAtMyTV
(Je t'aime, faire du bruit comme le cochon.)
To: Graybeard58
Sounds like dad didn't have a chance to get his trimmer out, to defend himself.
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posted on
08/16/2011 9:52:24 AM PDT
by
Daffynition
("Don't just live your life, but witness it also.")
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