Joliet Killer Martell Ollie Threatens To Kill 2 Women With Gun: Cops

CREST HILL — Martell Ollie, a Joliet 30-year-old who ended the life of 24-year-old Romeoville resident Donald Woods Jr. on Joliet's southeast side during the late afternoon of May 15, 2018, now finds himself facing four new criminal charges at Will County's Courthouse.

Last week, the Will County State's Attorney's Office of Jim Glasgow charged Ollie with two counts of aggravated assault and two counts of disorderly conduct in connection with an Oct. 11 crime investigated by the Crest Hill police force.

The criminal complaint indicates that Ollie threatened to kill two women by pointing a handgun at both of the victims and placing them in reasonable apprehension of receiving a battery.

The warrant for Ollie's arrest indicates he now lives in the 22000 block of Plainfield's Pasadena Lane. Will County Judge James Harvey issued the warrant authorizing Crest Hill police to arrest Ollie.

The last time Joliet Patch wrote about Ollie was in November 2020, when he was sentenced to 13 years if prison after pleading guilty to second-degree murder for killing 24-year-old Romeoville resident Donald Woods Jr. on Joliet's southeast side during the late afternoon of May 15, 2018.

After originally being charged with first-degree murder, Ollie hired one of Joliet's most recognized criminal defense lawyers at the Will County Courthouse, Chuck Bretz, as his counsel.

At the November 2020 sentencing, Patch learned that Ollie would serve the 13-year sentence at 50 percent. Also, Ollie received credit for the 907 days he already spent in the Will County Jail awaiting trial. A third aspect of the plea deal was that Ollie's four pending drug cases were resolved with guilty pleas, and those convictions were served at the same time as his second-degree murder conviction.

At the murder charge sentencing 2020, Bretz told Joliet Patch that he anticipated Ollie would serve the next four years in prison and that Ollie would be back in Joliet when he was 30 years old.

Bretz said his client always insisted that he killed Donald Woods Jr. in self-defense.

"It was very clear that the decedent also had a gun on him and fired that weapon at least once before he was shot by the defendant," Bretz told Joliet Patch.