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Man charged in fatal Oswego attack on wait list for mental health treatment · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Man charged in fatal Oswego attack on waitlists for mental
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  Speaker 1: health treatment. Written by Eric Shelkoff, This article is being
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  Speaker 1: read by an automated voice brought to you by Everlett.
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  Speaker 1: After being found unfit to stand trial, the Kankaki man
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  Speaker 1: charged in a fatal attack in Oswego remains on a
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  Speaker 1: waitlist for mental health treatment. Darrell Lee Junior, twenty percent
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  Speaker 1: is charged with killing a man using a hammer and
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  Speaker 1: knife and injuring another person October twenty second at the
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  Speaker 1: Chick fil A restaurant in Oswego. He has pleaded not
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  Speaker 1: guilty to the charges. Lee has been remanded to the
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  Speaker 1: Illinois Department of Human Resources for mental health treatment. He
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  Speaker 1: faces eleven felony accounts, including first degree murder, concealment of
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  Speaker 1: a homicidal death, and armed robbery. They are about one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and ten people on a waiting list to get
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  Speaker 1: into a mental health facility, Kendall County State's Attorney Eric
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  Speaker 1: Weise said following a March ninth status hearing on the case,
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  Speaker 1: Weis's anticipating that Lee will be placed in a mental
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  Speaker 1: health facility within the next thirty to sixty days. The
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  Speaker 1: Illinois Department of Human Services Division of Mental Health operates
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  Speaker 1: seven state run inpatient psychiatric hospitals for adults, including one
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  Speaker 1: in Elgin. Lee's next court hearing is set for nine am,
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  Speaker 1: April sixth. The victim in the fatal attack was identified
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  Speaker 1: as Tracy Jaylen, fifty two, of Bridgeview. Land was making
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  Speaker 1: a delivery to the restaurant at twenty seven to forty
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  Speaker 1: thirty four when about three ten am, Lee allegedly broke
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  Speaker 1: into the restaurant and attacked him with a hammer and
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  Speaker 1: a knife. Oswego Police said about five am, Oswego police
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  Speaker 1: were called to the restaurant for a report of a stabbing.
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  Speaker 1: Upon arrival, officers found the alleged defender, later identified by
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  Speaker 1: police as Lee, being restrained by two contracted maintenance workers.
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  Speaker 1: Officers immediately took Lee into custody and again providing medical
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  Speaker 1: aid to one of the workers who had been injured.
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  Speaker 1: Police said the injured twenty year old man was taken
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  Speaker 1: to an area hospital. Based on statements allegedly made by Lee,
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  Speaker 1: officers conducted a protective sweep of the restaurant and discovered
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  Speaker 1: Land's body inside. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
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  Speaker 1: Lee will be committed to the Illinois Department of Human
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  Speaker 1: Services in an inpatient secure facility. Weiss has said the
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  Speaker 1: doctor who did the evaluation believes he can be restored
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  Speaker 1: to fitness within a year, which is the standard in
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  Speaker 1: the state of Illinois for fitness. Weis said, and once
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  Speaker 1: he is found to be fit, he'll be returned here
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  Speaker 1: back in Kendall County and the proceedings will continue on
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  Speaker 1: Why said he believes that Lee understands the charges against him,
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  Speaker 1: but that he is not able to assist in his
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  Speaker 1: own defense. That's usually where the issue comes up when
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  Speaker 1: you have a mental illness without treatment or medications, he said,
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  Speaker 1: So they'll give him some treatment as well as medications,
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  Speaker 1: which will allow him then to assist his attorneys in
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  Speaker 1: his own defense. Lee will remain in custody in the
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  Speaker 1: Kendall County Jail until the Illinois Department of Human Services
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  Speaker 1: has a bed available. Police said that after allegedly killing Land,
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  Speaker 1: Lee remained in the restaurant and tried to clean up
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  Speaker 1: the crime scene. The maintenance workers were outside the restaurant,
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  Speaker 1: unaware that Lee was inside and had allegedly killed Land.
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  Speaker 1: Police said Lee exited the restaurant about four fifty five
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  Speaker 1: am and allegedly attacked the twenty year old man from
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  Speaker 1: behind by stabbing him with a knife. Police said despite
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  Speaker 1: his injuries, the man was able to subdue his attacker
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  Speaker 1: with the assistance of his mother, who also was on
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  Speaker 1: site working with him. Police said Oswego Village officials in
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  Speaker 1: November honored the mother and son for their efforts at
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  Speaker 1: the scene. At the November fourth as we Go Village
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  Speaker 1: Board meeting, village President Ryan col Hoffmann read a proclamation
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  Speaker 1: commending the efforts of Sergio Uribe Junior and don Oribe