Love Brothers Shatter Windows, Victim Jumps Out Apartment: JPD

JOLIET, IL — Joliet's Love brothers, Kenneth Love, 34, and Thomas Love, 36, are back in the Will County Jail again after using several bricks to shatter the Joliet Housing Authority windows as they came to attack their victim in the middle of the night, Joliet police noted.

Their victim jumped out one of the windows and landed on the ground, as he tried to avoid being attacked by the Love brothers, arrest reports show. A Joliet Fire Department ambulance rushed the man to St. Joe's hospital for treatment of his injuries.

"Kenneth and Thomas Love were placed into custody without incident after Officers located them in the 500 block of Bluff Street nearly two hours later," Joliet police spokesman Dwayne English announced.

Kenneth and Thomas were both booked into the Will County Jail on identical charges of criminal trespass to state supported property, criminal damage to state supported property and assault.

English said the incident with the Loves began at 2:22 a.m. on Monday, April 10.

According to English, Joliet squad cars were sent to a Joliet Housing Authority apartment at 415 North Bluff Street for a disturbance. Two brothers, Kenneth and Thomas Love, had gone to the apartment and shattered five windows using bricks, while a 36-year-old man and a 34-year-old woman were inside.

Police said Kenneth and Thomas Love entered the apartment by damaging the door, and they tried to fight the 36-year-old man; he managed to escape the Loves, by jumping out of the window, which left him injured and taken to St. Joe's hospital.

The victim jumped from a first-story window, English said. His injuries are not life-threatening.

The woman inside that apartment was not hurt by the Loves, police said.

Both Love brothers remained incarcerated at the Will County Jail on Thursday. Thomas Love comes from the 100 block of Illinois Street, and his bail stands at $55,000. Kenneth Love's bail is $50,000, and he lives in a basement apartment house in the 200 block of Richards Street, his jail logs noted.

Kenneth and Thomas Love has been the subject of multiple Joliet Patch crime stories over the past several years.

Joliet police have arrested 34-year-old Kenneth Love five different times since October, jail logs show. Two years ago this week, Joliet Patch ran a crime article about Kenneth Love headlined: "Finger Severed During Joliet Machete Attack On Hunter Ave."

In 2022, Kenneth Love spent five months in the Will County Jail, in the spring and summer of, and since August, Joliet police have now arrested him three separate times.