WHEATON, Unwell. – A Glendale Heights man was sentenced to 2 concurrent life phrases for a 2021 homicide in Hanover Park stemming from a drug deal.
Earlier this 12 months, Richard Goodwin, 59, was convicted of 4 counts of first-degree homicide and one depend of aggravated battery with a firearm.
What we all know:
Prosecutors stated on Aug. 2, 2021, Hanover Park police responded to a house on Pebblebeach Drive for a gunshot sufferer, and later acquired a name a couple of second gunshot sufferer.
Officers discovered the preliminary sufferer exterior the residence who had been shot within the left thigh, and the second sufferer, Marek Krywko, who was additionally shot within the left thigh.
First responders tried to deal with Krywko and the opposite sufferer, however he was unresponsive, later taken to an area hospital and died.
Authorities realized Goodwin and two females had been on the dwelling to buy marijuana from Krywko. When the feminine sufferer gave Goodwin a bottle of water, he shot her, then shot Krywko earlier than fleeing the scene with the 2 females.
He was taken into custody on Aug. 25, 2021.
What they’re saying:
In an announcement, DuPage County State’s Lawyer Robert Berlin stated:
“Whereas a lifetime behind bars can not erase their ache or deliver Marek Krywko again to those that liked him, maybe realizing that the person accountable for his demise will spend the remainder of his life behind bars will present Marek’s survivors some measure of closure. This mindless homicide not solely took a member of the family from those that liked him, however shook a whole neighborhood, as residents struggled to grasp how one thing this horrific might have occurred so near dwelling.”
