Mayhem In Plainfield Area: Joliet Police Bring 5 Charges Against Her

Crime & Safety

Mayhem In Plainfield Area: Joliet Police Bring 5 Charges Against Her Prosecutors are hoping to keep 23-year-old Kyriel Beck under the SAFE-T-Act. She resides in the 5400 block of Salma Street of Plainfield.

JOLIET — During the early morning hours of Election Day, Joliet police were called to a house in the Plainfield area, ushering out of her family's house in connection with allegations that Beck tried to strangle someone inside the house in the 5400 block of Salma Street.

Beck has remained in the Will County Jail since around 6:50 a.m. on Tuesday. She will appear before Will County Judge Donald DeWilkins on Thursday afternoon for her pretrial detention hearing. Will County prosecutors are hoping to keep Beck incarcerated; she is charged with two counts of aggravated domestic battery, aggravated battery and two counts of domestic battery.

According to the prosecution's filing:

At the house on Selma, the victim told Joliet police that Beck was acting strange lately. The woman was asleep when she heard Beck knocking at her door. She opened the door and Beck asked where 3-year-old son's phone was at. The woman told Beck the phone in the child's room in a Halloween basket and closed the door.

Later, Beck returned to the woman's bedroom, angry and demanding the phone. Beck was told again where the woman was at and to go away. Finally, Beck returned a third time, now screaming and yelling, "I'm coming in there," prosecutors outlined to the judge.

Beck tried to pry the lock to the bedroom door open with an object and the victim was later hit in the head by Beck twice with a large, empty glass bottle of alcohol, court documents show.

Beck hit the woman in the head a second time, causing her to head to bleed; when both women fell to the floor, Beck began choking the woman with both hands on her neck, prosecutors indicated.

The 45-year-old woman could not breathe during the strangulation and Beck released her hands from the victim's neck, picking up the empty bottle of alcohol and striking her a third time in the head with the bottle, court documents show.

The victim at the house on Salma had a deep laceration above her eyebrow that required stitches. A Joliet Fire Department ambulance brought Beck's victim to the St. Joe's hospital emergency room.

According to the prosecutor's petition to keep Beck locked up in the jail, she had been living with her father, however, she and her child came to live at the house on Salma Street recently. Her behavior had become very strange during the last several months, court records show.

"She does not sleep and is very aggressive for no reason. (She) also talks about God telling her to do things she doesn't want to do."

Beck later gave a statement to the Joliet police about the incident. She denied choking the 45-year-old woman, but indicated they ended up on the ground in a struggle. "When ... asked why she would fight with her (victim) she stated several times that she herself was 'hood' and that's all she knows," court records state.