The police say that attackers called them a slur. Why are the suspects not charged with a hate criminal?

Kady Grass was beaten in the restaurant in Carpentersville on May 13th. The police said at least one of the attackers called their slure due to their sexual orientation.
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A young woman was badly beaten on May 13th in a Carpentersville restaurant after the police said her attackers called her a derogatory name due to her sexual orientation.

Why are the defendants not commissioned to inspect a hate crime?

According to Kady Grass, it was attacked.

“How it started was because I was a lesbian and just because I went into the bathroom of the women and I looked what I looked like,” said Grass a few days after the attack on a CBS2 Chicago reporter.

According to the police, Grass left the toilet when 19-year-old John Z. Kammrad von Elgin and others called her and gave her a derogatory name. The oral attack became physically and grass suffered serious injuries that needed a trip to the hospital, the police said.

The case has attracted national attention in the days since then, including the reporting of CBS, NBC and ABC National News.

The police said at the weekend that hate crimes against Kammrad and a 17-year-old co-accused were discussed, but were rejected by the state of Kane.

But on Wednesday, the state's lawyer said Jamie Mosser that she had not yet ruled out that Kammrad and the 17-year-old young hate crimes. She is not ready with her investigation and will follow the judiciary “based on the full facts of the case”, she said in a written explanation.

“The allegations involved here are deeply worrying,” continued Mosser. “My thoughts are with Kady Grass and her family, and I want them to know that we will do everything within the law to blame those responsible. Kane County is an inviting community, and there is no place in a civilized society for alleged behavior in this case.”

John Z. Kammrad

At the moment, Kammrad is being burdened due to heavy battery and mob action, both crimes in class 3, which can be punished with a maximum of five years in prison or probation. His next court date is June 27th.

The 17-year-old boy is charged with a youth court in a similar way.

Mosser found that a hate criminal debt would be a less serious crime, in this case punished with a maximum of three years in prison or probation. If the accused is convicted of a hate criminal, he would also have to take part in an anti-hate training program.

In the meantime, Kammrad is sitting in the Dupage County prison. He was charged on April 8th for several crimes, including a stricter illegal possession of a stolen motor vehicle and the attempt to flee in Elmhurst. He had been released because these charges were not imprisoned crimes, but after his arrest on Saturday, the Dupage Prosecutor persuaded a judge to revoke his release.

According to Dupage Court documents, Kammrad in Cook County is on probation for serious illegal use of a weapon.

Case -update

Already in March we told them that the Supreme Court of Illinois took advantage of the case of a former student of the Stevenson High School, which was covered by the influence of marijuana during a driver's lesson.

The court published its decision on Thursday and it did not go to the ex-student. In a unanimous 7-0 judgment, the court confirmed the conviction and prison sentence of DUI 2023 January 2023, which included the 100-hour civil service.

The decision rejects the former student's argument that there is not enough evidence to condemn it without any doubt because the ED instructor of his driver initially distributed his bad driving to nervousness.

The student, whom we did not identify because he was 16 at the time, was arrested in May 2021 after the Lincolnshire police found that he still felt the effects of smoking the night before the night before when he took a park in a training drive.

Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire.
Daily Herald filing photo

In his decision, the High Court gave that there are many evidence that go beyond the statement of the instructor to support the conviction, including other school officers and a police officer who gave the student a soberness test.

“The court also described the video band from the school corridors and found that the accused stumbled back and forth. The accused also encountered the lockers and almost hit a table,” wrote Justice Elizabeth M. Rochford. “The previous evidence … supports the fact that driving the accused was due to more than just nervousness or inexperience.”

Fraud

While the nation honors the victims of its military members this weekend, some less honorable people will try to be a new warning from Better Business Bureau after our gratitude.

“The support of military families through non -profit organism is a noble law,” said the President and CEO of BBB, Steve J. Bernas, in the warning. “But fraudsters are increasingly the generosity of the Americans and the trust of our military community. It is important to check before they give.”

According to the Federal Trade Commission, veterans reported fraud losses of more than $ 419 million in 2024 compared to $ 350 million in 2023.

Was on the fake charity organizations with patriotic -sounding names, false military discounts and identity fraud in which criminals are involved who claim to come from veteran affairs or military representatives.

In order to protect itself, BBB recommends research into research before giving. This includes checking charity organizations on Give.org and the use of credit cards, whenever possible, and no personal information about unknown websites or people they do not know.

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