This week, a judge pronounced a 20 -year prison sentence to a man accused of the fatal sticking of another man in a dispute about a bus pass. Patrick O’Reilly, 29, was already four days on a crime for a Dui case when he was committed to the murder in March 2022. He was also on bail for a crime gun from Dupage County.
Around 6 am to 19 March 2022, the Chicago police are said to have found O’Reilly asleep and did not respond behind the wheel of a crashed car on the 1900 block of West Bryn Mawr. The front of the vehicle was blown up, the car was still in the ride and the police found an open, mostly empty bottle of whiskey on the passenger board, the prosecutors said at the time. Civil servants said the car was also stolen.
As soon as he was conscious again, O’Reilly would have told officers that they could not arrest him for Dui because he was ‘parked’. They still arrested him.
Public prosecutors accused him of worsened Dui, driving without ever getting a driver’s license and criminal violation to a vehicle. Justice officers also told Judge Mary Marubio about the hanging weapon store of O’Reilly in Dupage County. Nevertheless, she allowed him to go home after he posted a deposit of $ 500.
Four days after he walked out of prison, O’Reilly killed a man in the back garden of a west sofa house that he shared with a friend.
Public Prosecutors said that O’Reilly, his roommate, the mother of the roommate and 47-year-old Estevan Lopez ‘in the house’ lounging and drinking ‘and drunk when O’Reilly got involved in a fight that the mother of Lopez and the mother of the roommate had a bus pass.
Eventually Lopez and O’Reilly came in to go into the garden and fight. Lopez stepped into the garden and waited for O’Reilly with his hands on his side and no weapons.
But O He then returned to the house, washed the knife in the sink and left, said prosecutors.
The other two people who had been hanging around with O’Reilly and Lopez saw the attack.
The police arrested O’Reilly days later after he crashed again while he was drunk near the 3900 block of South Prairie, according to prosecutors. O’Reilly’s second Dui arrest marked this after a crash that same month.
This week, O’Reilly argued guilty of a reduced indictment for second-degree murder in exchange for the 20-year prison sentence of judge Peggy Chiampas. While prisoners must serve 100% of their penalties for murder in the first degree, they only have to serve 50% of the time for second -degree.
O’Rilly is expected to be released conditionally in February 2032. Last year he pleaded guilty of the Dupage County Gun Case and received a three -year prison sentence.
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