Only one month after being launched from jail, a person is now accused of finishing up a violent anti-gay hate crime inside a South Facet midway home, later telling police he was making an attempt to cut one other resident’s head off and was not sorry, prosecutors say.
Timothy Home, 33, is charged with tried homicide, hate crime, and aggravated battery with a lethal weapon in reference to the December 22 assault at a midway home within the 10400 block of South Wabash Avenue.
Prosecutors mentioned the 55-year-old sufferer suffered two stab wounds to the top, a wound to the neck, and a laceration to the shoulder throughout the assault.
Home had been dwelling on the facility since being paroled from the Illinois Division of Corrections on November 20, the place he served time for felony sexual assault and aggravated home battery convictions.
The sufferer, who was additionally on parole in an unrelated case, lived throughout the corridor from Home, and the 2 males noticed one another day by day, had beforehand mentioned faith, and the sufferer had disclosed to Home that he was gay, in keeping with prosecutors.
Shortly earlier than 10 p.m., the sufferer was mendacity in mattress when Home entered his room and requested to make use of his cellphone. When the sufferer refused, prosecutors say Home left the room however stopped within the hallway to take away a knife from the kitchen space earlier than returning to the sufferer’s room.
As soon as contained in the bed room once more, Home allegedly started stabbing and beating the sufferer, placing him within the head and physique with each the knife and his fists. The assault ended when a witness entered the room. Prosecutors say Home stopped attacking the sufferer, hugged the witness, and informed the witness he liked him earlier than leaving the bed room.
The witness then walked Home downstairs, the place Home allegedly retrieved his prayer mat earlier than leaving the residence. Each the sufferer and the witness referred to as 911. Prosecutors mentioned police detained Home, whose garments had been nonetheless bloody, a number of blocks away.
When the officers requested Home what had occurred, he allegedly informed them he had dedicated “a terrorist assault” and requested whether or not there was “quite a lot of blood over there.”
As proof technicians swabbed his arms, prosecutors say Home acknowledged that he hoped the sufferer didn’t have AIDS and mentioned he had been “stabbing [the victim’s] mind.”
After receiving Miranda warnings, Home allegedly requested whether or not the sufferer was lifeless and admitted to stabbing him within the head and beating him. Prosecutors mentioned Home informed police he attacked the sufferer as a result of the sufferer is gay and “not a Christian.”
Home additionally allegedly admitted he was making an attempt to stab the sufferer within the neck as a result of he was making an attempt to cut the sufferer’s head off. Prosecutors say Home admitted he was “not sorry.”
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