Another Crossbow Attack In Joliet, This Time On Raynor Ave.

JOLIET — Six months after Joliet police had a crossbow arrest on Langsford Lane, officers made another arrest, this time in the 400 block of North Raynor Avenue involving 36-year-old Winston Hart. Hart's being kept in the Will County Jail on charges of aggravated assault, battery, unlawful use of a weapon, aggravated unlawful restraint, criminal damage to property and aggravated battery with a deadly weapon.

Hart comes from the east side, the 1000 block of Woodruff Road.

According to Joliet police spokesman Dwayne English, Hart's arrest happened on Saturday after officers responded around 6 p.m. to the 400 block of North Raynor Avenue for a man with a crossbow.

Officers learned that Hart believed that a resident in this area owed him money. According to police, Hart came to a residence while armed with a crossbow and when the unsuspecting man answered the door, Hart pointed the crossbow at him and discharged an arrow in his direction.

The arrow missed the victim and became lodged in the ceiling inside the doorway. According to police, as Hart tried to load a second arrow into the crossbow, the victim struck Hart in the head and took him to the ground.

English said the victim called 911 and held Hart until Joliet police and placed Hart into custody. Officers recovered the crossbow. An intoxicated Hart made numerous threats to harm the victim while in the presence of the officers, according to English.

Hart was later taken to Ascension St Joseph Medical Center by the Joliet Fire Department for treatment of injuries received from his confrontation with the victim.

He was released from the hospital a short time later and brought to the Will County Adult Detention Facility.

Back in December, Joliet Patch broke the news that a 53-year-old man from the Plainfield area, Harold Cochran, remains in Will County's Jail after Joliet police said he clubbed someone inside his house with a wood beam and then grabbed his crossbow and fired a wooden arrow at his victim.

Joliet police booked Cochran into the Will County Jail on Friday afternoon, and he remained there on Monday now that a Will County judge has determined that Cochran meets the dangerous standard. Cochran must now remain locked up indefinitely as he awaits his trial on three criminal charges: aggravated battery, domestic battery and aggravated assault.

Also, in 2019, Joliet Patch wrote another crime story about Winston Hart surrounding his arrest at the Shorewood Public Library. Patch reported at the time that the 31-year-old man from San Clemente, California remained locked up in the Will County Jail after Shorewood Police arrested him on charges of theft and criminal damage to government supported property.

Winston Hart was accused of throwing several rocks and shattering glass windows inside the Shorewood-Troy Public Library during the late hours of Aug. 7, after the library staff had closed up the building and went home.

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