Co-Owner of Elgin Construction Co. Was Beaten to Death: Police

CHICAGO, IL - A 43-year-old Barrington Hills man who was found dead in a burning car in Chicago in September died of "multiple injuries due to assault,” the Cook County Medical Examiner said Thursday.

No charges have been brought but the death of James D. Gerage is being investigated as a homicide, police told the Daily Herald earlier this week.

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Gerage was the co-owner of Omega Demolition Corp., which is based in Elgin, at the time of his death.

Earlier this month, Omega Demolition Corp. was fined over $150,000 after federal regulators determined a 40-ton “overstressed beam” that fell at a construction site on I-90 was to blame for killing a worker at the site this past spring.

Vincente Santoyo, 47, of Berwyn, was killed by the steel beam after it collapsed on April 5 at the construction site on I-90 over Touhy Avenue in Des Plaines.

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