Person Of Interest Questioned In Joliet Double Murder At Auto Shop
(CBS) – Police were questioning a person of interest Thursday about a double murder at a Joliet auto body shop.
Joliet Deputy Police Chief Al Roechner says detectives got word Wednesday night that a man had been at the auto body shop the night before the bodies were found: a man about 40 years old who had been in prison for carjacking and was paroled last August.
And when police looked for him at the address he'd given parole officers -- in Bourbonnais -- police were told he wasn't there and hadn't been there.
"We did locate him today. He was at a hotel in Chicago Heights. We did just take him into custody a short time ago for the parole warrant violation, and we're going to speak to him in reference to the incident," Roechner says.
"So right now he's a person of interest, either as a suspect or as a witness."
Roechner says the man was an acquaintance of at least one of the victims.
The bodies of 48-year-old Michael Oram Sr. and 43-year-old Jamie Wills were found in the auto shop in Joliet Wednesday morning.
The coroner says they died of multiple blunt force injuries to the head.