Is the Owner of Skooter's Not Even Safe?

SHOREWOOD, IL — Just weeks after a Skooter’s bouncer and his brother allegedly beat a customer so severely he remains hospitalized and in danger of dying, a warrant was issued for the arrest of a Romeoville man charged with attacking the owner.

Jeremy Durr, 23, was charged with battery. He failed to appear in court for the case Friday.

A 25-year-old woman residing at the same Hickory Avenue home as Durr, Ileana Leyva, was also charged with battery. Details on Leyva’s case were not available Friday.

According to a criminal complaint on file in Will County court, Durr battered Peter Gelis on Feb. 20, striking his face and body.

Gelis, 54, was listed as the owner of Skooter’s Roadhouse when he appeared before the village’s planning and zoning commission in June 2012.

Eight days after the alleged attack on Gelis, a Skooter’s bouncer, 22-year-old Minooka mixed martial arts fighter Michael “Wardog” Reid, and a man identified by police as either Reid’s half brother or stepbrother, Nicholas Ventsias, 26, beat a 27-year-old Skooter’s customer so severely that his survival remains in doubt, police said.

The vicious attack was carried out after Skooter’s closed on a Saturday night last month, police said.

Reid and Ventsias reportedly got into a parking lot altercation with two other men. Those two men, the 27-year-old and a 21-year-old, along with a third man, left and headed to the Burger King down Jefferson Street. After they arrived, Reid and Ventsias showed up and attacked two of them, police said.

Both men were severely beaten, according to police, although only the 27-year-old lost consciousness.

Reid and Ventsias remain locked up in the Will County jail. Reid’s bond was set at $1 million and Ventsias’ was set at $750,000.