Oak Park Man Charged In Fatal Overdose Death Of Woman: Prosecutors

WHEATON, IL — An Oak Park man became the second person charged in connection with the fatal overdose death of a 29-year-old woman and is being held on $350,000 bond, prosecutors announced on Sunday.

Bishop Moore, 62, was charged with one count of drug-induced homicide in the death of Margaret McCabe, who died at her Clarendon Hills home in 2021. Moore has been charged with McCabe’s death along with Sergius Harty, 29, Glen Ellyn, who was charged with drug-induced homicide last week in the death of his girlfriend, DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert Berlin said.

Berlin said that it is believed that on Nov. 5, 2021, Harty and McCabe traveled to Chicago to purchase drugs from Moore. Prosecutors said that Harty purchased several baggies of drugs from Moore, one of which contained fentanyl. Prosecutors said that once back at home, McCabe ingested the fentanyl that Harty gave her and that was purchased from Moore.

Police were later called to the home after one of McCabe’s relatives found her unresponsive. She was taken to a local hospital where she was pronounced dead, Berlin said. Moore was arrested on Friday without incident.

“As I said earlier, the only way to stop this heartbreaking, senseless loss of life is to hold those who supply fatal doses of narcotics responsible,” Berlin said in a news release issued on Sunday. “Thanks to the outstanding work of DuPage County Sheriff James Mendrick’s office, we were able to file charges against another individual suspected of being a link in the deadly supply chain of illegal narcotics that allegedly took the life of Margaret McCabe.”

Moore is scheduled to appear in court again on Sept. 12.