Woman Charged with Murdering Husband in April Says She was Menaced by Man Now Living with Her

A Bolingbrook woman charged with stabbing her husband to death in April claims a man menaced her with a wheelchair and a crutch after he moved into her home last month.

Michele Evans, 50, petitioned for a protective order against “former friend” John Hollyfield. Evans appeared in court and was granted an emergency order Monday. She was in court exactly three weeks prior to that for her murder case. Evans is free on $100,000 bail.

Evans allegedly thrust a knife into the chest of her husband, 55-year-old David Evans, at their Bloomfield Drive home. David Evans died about five hours later at Good Samaritan Hospital in Downers Grove.

Now, Michele Evans, whose Facebook page had said she is a former employee of Valley View School District and that she was in the Air Force from 1985 until 1990, has accused 51-year-old John Hollyfield of terrorizing her in the same home where she allegedly killed her husband.

“Over the last month that John has moved in with me, he has become verbally and physically abusive to me,” she said in her petition. “He will throw things, he has picked up my crutch and waived (sic) it at me threatening me with it.”

Michele Evans also said Hollyfield picked up her wheelchair and was going to throw it at her, but she cowered on the floor and he walked away.

Hollyfield said Tuesday he knows nothing of the petition or the emergency order, and he denied ever living with Michele Evans.

“I helped out when she fractured her heel,” said Hollyfield, who declined to say where he does reside.