A 16-time convicted violent felon is again behind bars after prosecutors stated he launched a brutal, unprovoked hammer assault on a senior citizen in Auburn Gresham this summer time.
Prosecutors say Frank Barker, 58, of South Holland, ambushed a 69-year-old man who was unloading groceries exterior his house within the 8300 block of South Inexperienced Road round 1:48 p.m. on August 20.
Prosecutors stated Barker, who stands 6’2” and weighs 260 kilos, took “full energy swings” on the man’s head, inflicting “crucial accidents, disfigurement, and main blood loss,” a prison criticism stated. Regardless of the severity of the assault, officers stated Barker didn’t steal something. As a substitute, he casually walked to a close-by bus cease, boarded a CTA bus together with his hammer, and left the world.
The sufferer was rushed to the College of Chicago Medical Middle, the place docs gave him greater than 60 stitches to shut the injuries on his head.
Chicago law enforcement officials and Barker’s parole officer recognized him after reviewing surveillance photos.
Choose Rivanda Doss Beal ordered Barker detained on an tried homicide cost, calling the assault “a random assault on a citizen for no obvious cause.”
Illinois Division of Corrections information present Barker has spent most of his grownup life in jail. He was paroled on April 17 after serving half of a 14-year sentence for robbing a sufferer over the age of 60. He dedicated that crime shortly after he was paroled upon serving half of a 20-year sentence he obtained for a number of robberies in 2008.
Barker’s file reads like a catalog of violent crime:
- 14 years for theft of a sufferer over 60 in 2018
- 20 years for theft in 2008
- 20 years for illegal vehicular invasion in 2008
- Three extra 20-year sentences for robberies in 2008
- One other 20 years for theft of a sufferer over 60 in 2008
- 6 years for armed violence in 1997
- 11 years for carjacking in 1997
- 11 extra years for carjacking whereas armed in 1997
- 6 years for armed theft in 1994
- 4 years for residential housebreaking in 1989, plus one other 4 for housebreaking the identical yr
- Three separate 4-year phrases for residential burglaries in 1984
