Crime & Safety
Joliet Murderer Sentenced For Taking Friend's Life On Pine St.
The Will County State's Attorney's Office cut a deal with Mario Noble. The Joliet killer known as "D" pleaded to second-degree murder.
JOLIET, IL — After living in the Will County Jail for more than two and a half years, Joliet killer Mario Noble was ready to take responsibility for killing his friend Jermaine Pettigrew back in September 2020. On Friday, the Will County State's Attorney's Office announced its plea agreement with the 38-year-old Noble.
Prosecutors dropped Noble's first-degree murder charges as part of his plea. Noble pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, and Will County Judge Amy Bertani-Tomczak sentenced Noble to 19 years in the custody of the Illinois Department of Corrections.
Noble will receive credit for time already served, which is significant — it's 946 days. He will only have to serve his remaining prison sentence at 50 percent, court records show.
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On Sept. 3, 2020, Joliet resident Jermaine Pettigrew was shot in the 300 block of Pine Street, which is where Noble lives, and near the intersection of Center Street. A Joliet Fire Department ambulance brought Pettigrew to St. Joe's hospital, and Pettigrew was conscious and alert after the shooting, Joliet police announced at the time.
The 42-year-old Pettigrew died six days later at St. Joe's hospital.
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"Defendant and his friend got into a verbal dispute that lasted more than 20 minutes. The friend provoked (Noble) to fight and lunged at (Noble). (Noble) pulled out a gun and shot the friend multiple times," Will County prosecutors wrote in drawing up Friday's second-degree murder guilty plea.
Noble, who turns 39 in June, has had several run-ins with the Will County court system, but his past convictions mainly involved dealing marijuana, obstructing identification, driving while revoked and aggravated DUI.
His 2018 conviction for aggravated DUI resulted in a sentence of two years of probation and 108 days in the Will County Jail. The sentencing judge in that case was the same judge who sentenced him on Friday for second-degree murder: Judge Bertani-Tomczak.
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