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Man held in slaying of elderly man who took him in
Staff report
7:04 PM CDT, July 18, 2011
A formerly homeless man who was taken in by an elderly Northwest Side man now faces murder charges in his benefactor’s slaying last fall, prosecutors said today.
Gilbert Feliciano, 40, was ordered held without bail in the slaying of Stanley Letkiewicz, 94, who was beaten in October 13, 2010, in his home in the 2800 block of North Long Avenue and died Nov. Nov. 23, after identifying Feliciano as his attacker, prosecutors said.
Letkiewicz had befriended Feliciano after seeing him begging at a neighborhood Aldi’s grocery store, a family member told the Tribune last year. Letkiewicz allowed Feliciano to move into his house last summer, then asked him to leave his home in August because Feliciano had stolen from him, assistant state’s attorney Jamie Santini said today in a hearing before Cook County Criminal Court Judge Adam Bourgeois Jr.
Feliciano came back and went up to Letkiewicz on Sept. 3 while he was taking out the trash and asked him for $40, prosecutors said. When Letkiewicz refused to give him the money, Feliciano forced Letkiewicz into his house and beat him up and stole $100 from him.
Letkiewicz identified Feliciano as his attacker, but police had not arrested him before Oct. 13, when a neighbor who had a key to Letkiewicz’s house found him severely beaten on his bedroom floor after noticing a broken basement window, Santini said.
In several interviews with police, Letkiewicz identified Feliciano as his assailant in the Oct. 13 attack, and said Feliciano again had stolen money from him. Letkiewicz died Nov. 23, and the Cook County medical examiner’s office found he had died from head injuries from an assault.
Feliciano fled to Ohio, but returned to the Chicago area after his mother died, and was arrested at a relative’s Northwest Side home in May, prosecutors said.
Feliciano is scheduled to appear in court again on Aug. 8.
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Monday, July 18, 2011
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Hi Claire, My sincere condolences to you and Ray. Stanley's murder and the abuse of elderly people unfortunately is becoming more and more common as the aging population increases in proportion to the general population. It is unconscionable that the State's Attorneys office did not have the decency to inform Ray of trial and hearing. For a more practical reason the monster who murdered Stanley will be up for a sentencing hearing once he is convicted and Ray should be there to speak for the family. Again, my best wishes are for your family. Lucius Verenus, Schoolmaster, ProbateSharks.com P.S. I will post your comments along with my reply on the shark blog.
ReplyDeleteOn Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 6:08 PM, Claire Letkiewicz wrote:
My husband, Ray Letkiewicz, is Stanley Letkiewicz's son - the only child.
It is truly heartbreaking and totally incomprehensible Ray wouldn't have known about the arrest and charges if he hadn't run across it on line last nite on the Chicago Tribune website!
This is not the first time he has had to read news of the his father's case in the papers without notification from the police or he state's attorney's office. Feliciano was arrested several months earlier and then released - Ray had to find that out online as well.
The justice system in Chicago seems to think that since Ray is out of state, they don't need to tell him anything. When he finds the information he can on-line, I post it on facebook for the rest of the Letkiewicz family to see. I think that is totally disrespectful and uncaring of the family.
At least now he can plan to be at the hearing/trial, thanks to the Chicago Tribune posting. He would have been devastated if he had missed that.
Claire Letkiewicz
Thank you!
Claire Letkiewicz
Hi Claire, Please go to Bev's Cable TV program regarding Rena Moss at www.Northshorelive.com Bev mention's Stanley's murder and the state's attorney's lassitude. Best wishes, Lucius
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On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 8:04 PM, Claire wrote:
Good evening! As an update, I have some great news – please forgive me for not using the posting route, I can’t seem to get that working yet.
On the day I posted, Ray contacted the state’s attorney’s office and got some assurances that he would be kept ‘in the loop” from this point forward. However, it was a “wait and see” type of thing for us. As of today, they have been true to their word and given him direct numbers to contact people with any questions/concerns he may have. They also seem committed to prosecute and put away the man we KNOW killed his father. This is the most hope and progress we have seen in months. We are unsure of exactly what precipitated the change, but we are thankful for it. However, I am sure the recent media attention and your blog has made a lot of the difference. Thank you for being there!
Sincerely,
Claire Letkiewicz
With blogs like this around I don't even need website anymore.
ReplyDeleteI can just visit here and see all the latest happenings in the world.