Rockdale Victim 'Will Be Lit Up With Bullets,' Defendant Drives BMW Over Victim At Junkyard: Prosecutors

ROCKDALE, IL — The Will County State's Attorney's Office of Jim Glasgow has filed a petition to deny pretrial release for 34-year-old Deya Ali, who was put in the Will County Jail on Wednesday in connection with a person being run over by a vehicle in Rockdale in late December.

The detention petition has been granted; Ali was slated to appear before Will County Judge Amy Bertani-Tomczak on Thursday morning. Ali is charged with three crimes of aggravated battery; the Will County Sheriff's Office captured him on Wednesday. A warrant for Ali's arrest was issued last week by Rockdale's deputy police chief.

According to the prosecution's filing, around 2:55 p.m. on Dec. 27, Rockdale Police Officer Stankus was dispatched to 849 Rock Island, which appears to be a junk yard, for someone hit by a vehicle.

The officer saw the victim sitting against a vehicle shaken up, with three men around him. Hasan Alshoaibi, one of them, informed the officer that their friend, Deya Ali, the defendant, had shown up, called the victim and told him to come outside, prosecutors pointed out.

The victim came outside and waived at Deya to come in but Deya accelerated his vehicle toward him, swerved the vehicle to the left to where he was standing and struck him before leaving at a high rate of speed, prosecutors revealed.

The Rockdale victim was taken to the hospital with a fractured leg and a torn ACL and was kept overnight for observation.

Rockdale police interviewed the victim, "who stated the same thing that Hasan stated, but added that the defendant had a black handgun and pointed it at him before speeding off. (He) stated he does not know why the defendant would hit him with a vehicle because they were on good terms the last time they spoke to each other on the previous night," prosecutors pointed out.

Rockdale's officers reviewed surveillance footage, which showed a dark gray BMW speeding toward the victim, swerving toward him and striking him at a high rate of speed. The victim then fell to the ground and the BMW speeds off, court documents show.

After the incident, one of the other men stated that Ali called him on his cell phone and said his house and the victim's house would be lit up with bullets, prosecutors outlined.

As for Ali, who lives in Frankfort, he has an expired Firearm Identification Card and expired Concealed Carry license, court documents show.