Joliet man is charged with attempted murder in shooting of audio engineer at recording studio
By Emma Graves Fitzsimmons | Tribune reporter
January 16, 2008
A Joliet man was charged with attempted murder Tuesday in a weekend shooting that left an audio engineer at a recording studio hospitalized with a serious brain injury.
Police were called early Saturday to the I Eat U Eat Sound Lab at 343 Ruby St. after an upstairs resident found a 19-year-old man with a gunshot wound in the head inside a recording booth.
The man was taken to Provena St. Joseph Medical Center in Joliet with a severe brain injury and remained in critical condition Tuesday, officials said.
"The shooting appears to have stemmed from [the victim's] loyalty to the art of sound engineering for music's sake rather than his desire to be involved in gangs," said Patrick Kerr, deputy chief of the Joliet Police Department.
Alexander Moore, 18, of the 200 block of Fairbanks Avenue was charged with attempted first-degree murder and aggravated battery with a firearm, a spokeswoman for the Illinois attorney general's office said. He was arrested at his home Sunday.
A 16-year-old boy also was charged with two counts of concealing or aiding a fugitive and one count of obstructing justice.
Because the mother of the man who was shot is an employee of the Will County state's attorney's office, the Illinois attorney general's office is handling the case