Joliet Reckless Homicide Fugitive Returned From Tennessee

JOLIET, IL — It's been more than a month since police say 22-year-old Joliet resident Anthony Casterberry floored the gas of a Mitsubishi Endeavor on Theodore Street, trying to flee Crest Hill officers during a late night traffic stop. According to prosecutors, Casterberry kept driving faster and faster and eventually lost control, striking a car driven by 60-year-old Suos Khloth on West Jefferson Street, killing the Joliet motorist, court documents show.

"Said defendant, while acting in a reckless manner, performed an act likely to cause death or great bodily harm to some individual, in that he drove a … Mitsubishi Endeavor upon Jefferson Street east of Midland Avenue in Joliet … at a speed which was in excess of 20 miles per hour over the posted speed limit of 35 miles per hour and he did not drive his vehicle … entirely within a single lane while on Jefferson Street, causing his motor vehicle to strike the motor vehicle operated by Suos Khloth, a Jaguar X6, thereby causing the death of Suos Khloth," the complaint states.

Then, after striking the motorist he didn't know, Casterberry jumped out of his vehicle and ran off into the night, trying to avoid being captured by Crest Hill and Joliet police, authorities said. During the past few weeks, Casterberry remained a fugitive, however, last week, authorities in the state of Tennessee located Casterberry and put him into their jail.

On Sunday morning, Casterberry was returned to the Will County Jail. On June 7, Judge Vicki Kennison issued a warrant for Casterberry's arrest on charges of:

• 2 Counts of Failure to report an accident involving personal injury or death
• Unlawful use of a weapon by a felon
• Reckless Homicide
• Aggravated fleeing or attempting to elude a peace officer
• Aggravated reckless driving
• Driving while license suspended

Back on June 7, the judge set the defendant's bail at $750,000, meaning Casterberry must come up with $75,000 cash in order to get out of jail while his case awaits trial.

Jail logs listed Casterberry as previously living in the 400 block of Plainfield Road, prior to leaving Illinois for Tennessee.