Sep 23, 2008 5:00 am US/Central
4 In Custody In Deadly St. Charles Stabbing
Charges Expected Later Tuesday
ST. CHARLES, Ill. (Sun-Times Media Wire) ―
Four people were arrested and are expected to be charged later Tuesday in the stabbing death of a 28-year-old man in west suburban St. Charles.
As many as 50 officers from St. Charles and the Kane County Major Case Task Force took part in the investigation, which began at 11:58 p.m. Sunday, when 28-year-old Naromi Mannery was found unresponsive with multiple stab wounds on a sidewalk in the 1000 block of West Main Street.
Mannery, of St. Charles, was taken by paramedics to Delnor Community Hospital in Geneva, where he was pronounced dead at 2:10 a.m., according to the Kane County Coroner's office.
An autopsy Monday found the preliminary cause of death to be a stab wound to the chest, according to the coroner's office.
Police said Monday evening the actual stabbing occurred in a residence at 920 W. Main St., and Mannery apparently walked across the street to where he was found collapsed on the sidewalk.
Four people were being held at the Kane County jail Monday night, but police did not offer any more details on how they might be connected to the murder. St. Charles police spokesman Paul McCurtain said investigators were not seeking anyone else for questioning.
Police interviewed eight people who were living at a house in the 900 block of West Main Street, where police say Mannery was the victim of an assault.
Yellow tape blocked off that two-story home Monday morning, while police checked stairways, yards and an area near the alley. At one point, police blocked late-morning traffic on the busy four-lane road as an investigator with a camera closely studied a bloodstain in front of a business on Main Street's south side, near 10th Street -- the spot where Mannery collapsed. A series of blood drops on sidewalks on both sides of Main created a trail from the house, McCurtain said.
Police would not say whether a weapon had been recovered.
"Several items of evidence were collected from the scene," McCurtain said.
Brandon Petschow has lived next door to the house on Main Street for a year and a half. He described the neighbors as a sometimes "obnoxious" bunch, but never had any run-ins with the several people who lived there.
Petschow, whose second floor apartment overlooks the scene, was awakened by police knocking on his door. Investigators asked him if had heard any "screams or cries for help," but Petschow didn't hear anything.
The last murder reported in St. Charles was on January 8, 2003, police said.
(Source: Sun-Times Media Wire © Chicago Sun-Times 2009. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.)
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