Frying Pan-Wielding Attacker Bashed Man’s Head Bloody: Cops

JOLIET, IL — A disagreement about the quality of home repairs ended with one man grabbing a frying pan and using it to bash another’s head into a bloody mess, police said.

The beaten 52-year-old man had reportedly gone to a home on Arthur Avenue Thursday to fix a furnace. The man is an acquaintance of a woman living there and had not been hired to perform the job, police said.

While he was there, the woman’s 50-year-old son, Charles Allen, started complaining about previous home repairs the man had performed, police said.

The argument turned “violent,” police said, and Allen clubbed the other man twice in the head with a cast-iron frying pan, hitting him once in the front of his skull and once in the back.

When the law arrived, Allen was in front of the house, police said. He had reportedly cut his hand somehow.

The other man’s head was “gushing blood,” police said. Both he and Allen were taken to Silver Cross Hospital in New Lenox. Allen was then reportedly taken to the police station, and from there the Will County jail.

Officers found the frying pan in the kitchen sink, police said. It was reportedly covered in blood.

image via Will County Sheriff's Department