A 51-year-old Naperville woman will remain in custody after her arrest in the shooting death of man in an Oakbrook Terrace hotel Saturday evening.
DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert Berlin and Oakbrook Terrace Chief of Police Casey Calvello announced yesterday that Judge Joshua Dieden granted the State’s Motion to deny pre-trial release for the woman accused of murdering Calvin Truitt last Saturday night. She has been charged with one count of First-Degree Murder.
According to prosectors, on Saturday evening at approximately 8:15 pm police arrived at the Oakbrook Terrace Hilton Suites located at 10 Drury Lane, and found a victim, identified as Calvin Truitt, with two gunshot wounds to his back and side areas. Truitt was immediately transported to a local hospital where he passed away as a result of his injuries.
Prosecutors allege that the accused got into a verbal altercation with a person in a group of people whom she knew, including Truitt, at the hotel pool. Truitt and his group left the pool area on got on an elevator, followed by the accused. When the elevator doors opened on the seventh floor, a fight broke out at which time the accused pulled out a handgun and fired three times, fatally striking Truitt.
Prosecutors say that the accused then left the scene and returned to her hotel room. She was taken into custody a short time later from her hotel room without incident. When processing her hotel room, authorities recovered a Taurus 9 mm handgun in a holster from the accused’s waistband.
“The allegations that [the accused] followed Mr. Truitt and others into a hotel elevator as they walked away from a verbal altercation and then shot and killed Mr. Truitt as they exited the elevator in a crowded hotel during the busy holiday season are shocking and will be met with the full force of the law,” Berlin said. “In DuPage County, we do not tolerate any type of gun violence.”
The accused’s next court appearance is scheduled for January 4, 2024, for arraignment in front of Judge Daniel Guerin.
