5 Charged After Joliet Inmate Gets Beaten In Will County Jail

JOLIET, IL — Five inmates who are living in the Will County Jail now face additional charges as a result of their role in last week's attack against 25-year-old Joliet inmate Kendall Guyton, according to the Will County State's Attorney's Office of Jim Glasgow.

Aggravated battery charges, mob action and criminal damage to government property, all felonies, have been filed against co-defendants Malik Elam, Malik M.L. Garfield, Darion C. McMillian, Dieontae Sparks and Nikolaus Daishonn Vaughn in connection with the Aug. 13 attack inside the Will County Jail, 95 South Chicago St.

The criminal complaint against the five men states they "knowingly and without legal justification ... caused great bodily harm to Kendall Guyton in that said defendants struck Kendall Guyton about the body."

The mob action charge alleges the five "acted together to cause bodily harm to another inmate within an area of the adult detention facility accessible to and occupied by other inmates in the unit."

The criminal damage to government property charge indicates the five men all damaged "mops and buckets belonging to the Will County Adult Detention Facility, property supported in whole or in part with State funds."

Incidentally, on Tuesday afternoon, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Chicago filed federal sex trafficking charges against Kendall Guyton and a co-defendant from Richton Park.

In any event, three of the five men involved in last week's beating were already facing murder charges in Romeoville, Park Forest and University Park respectively, jail logs show.

Kendall Guyton was the subject of a June 3 Joliet Patch crime article headlined, "Victim Smacked In Face With Gun: Joliet Police Make Arrest." Guyton, who lives in the 200 block of Hunter Avenue, had been arrested by Joliet police officers and charged with aggravated battery, attempted armed robbery and unlawful use of a weapon by a convicted felon.

According to Will County Jail records:

Malik Elam is a 21-year-old Sauk Village resident who has remained in the Will County Jail since his June 14, 2018, arrest by University Park police on murder charges.

Malik M.L. Garfield is a 20-year-old Chicago Heights resident who has been in the Will County Jail since March 5, 2019, following his arrest by Park Forest police on charges of armed robbery and vehicle hijacking.

Darion McMillian is an 18-year-old resident of Bolingbrook who has remained in the Will County Jail since his Oct. 23, 2019, arrest by the Will County Sheriff's Office on charges of aggravated battery discharging a firearm.

Nikolaus Daishonn Vaughn is a 20-year-old resident of Park Forest who has been in the Will County Jail since May 24, 2018, following his arrest by Park Forest police on murder charges.

Dieontae Sparks, whose mugshot appears at the top of this Joliet Patch article, is a 20-year-old resident of Plainfield who has remained in the Will County Jail since May 29, 2019. Sparks was arrested by the Will County Sheriff's Office on numerous felonies including murder, armed robbery, robbery and felon in possession of a gun.

Sparks is the murder defendant in the Romeoville slaying of 28-year-old Reginald Harris.