Carl Gordon Homicide: State Police Raid Ruby St. Building

JOLIET, IL — On Tuesday, several crime-scene investigators with the Illinois State Police converged on a one-story building along Joliet's Ruby Street. The property is where out of town homicide victim, Carl Gordon, visited on his last night alive, May 29.

On Tuesday, Joliet Patch saw six gray-colored Illinois State Police vehicles parked near Ruby Street that had lettering on the back of the vehicles that read, STATE POLICE CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATOR.

There was a seventh Illinois State Police sports utility vehicle with normal white and tan lettering. One of the investigators told Joliet Patch he was from out of town and that nobody from the State P0lice CSI unit was authorized to speak with the press about Tuesday's police activities in Joliet.

Around 1:30 p.m., Patch noticed several members of the Illinois State Police casually coming and going from the building on Ruby Street where Gordon went in the hours before his violent death.

On June 23, Joliet Patch reported that the Illinois State Police announced that foul play was involved in the death of Gordon, an avid motorcycle rider, whose bullet-riddled body was found in the Calumet River three days earlier by the Blue Island Police Department. The Cook County Medical Examiner's Office classified Gordon's death as a homicide.

The travel distance from Blue Island to Joliet, using Interstate 80, is a 36-minute drive.

On June 9, Joliet Patch reported that Joliet's Ruby Street remained the focus of a two-week-old investigation into Gordon's whereabouts. Patch reported that even though Gordon lived 90 miles away in Belvedere, Gordon was familiar with Joliet, having purchased his 2012 Harley-Davidson Roadster at the same building on Ruby Street where he went on May 29 to get it repaired, according to the president and founder of the Missing Persons Awareness Network.

The building that was the subject of Tuesday's Illinois State Police raid has five garage stalls in back of the property.

Gordon, 35, had been missing since May 29 when he vanished after visiting Joliet.