More Trouble at Skooters - Shorewood Woman Wanted For Stabbing Lady at Bar: Cops

SHOREWOOD, IL — A Shorewood woman was charged with stabbing another woman at the Shorewood tavern Skooter’s Roadhouse.

The alleged knife attack at Skooter’s is just the latest incident of violence reported in connection with the Jefferson Street country-western hotspot. The police have already arrested a Minooka mixed martial arts fighter who was employed as a Skooter’s bouncer and his brother for allegedly beating a man nearly to death, and also charged a Romeoville man and his wife with attacking Skooter’s owner Peter Gelis and one of his bouncers.

The alleged Skooter’s stabber, 22-year-old Domenica Loiacono, has a warrant out for her arrest on charges of aggravated battery.

Loiacono and a 21-year-old woman got into an altercation at Skooter’s on Jan. 24, police said. Loiacono reportedly left the bar and when she returned, she brandished a knife and stabbed the other woman in the leg.

The wound was serious and the injured woman underwent surgery, police said.

The charges were filed against Loiacono eight days after the alleged attack and she remains at large. The warrant for her arrest carries a $75,000 bond.

The incident involving MMA fighter Michael “Wardog” Reid, 22, and a man identified as either his stepbrother or half brother — 26-year-old Nicholas Ventsias — started with a verbal dispute in the Skooter’s parking lot after closing time Feb. 28, police said.

Reid and Ventsias reportedly argued with two men, ages 27 and 21, who then left and headed to the Burger King down Jefferson Street. After they arrived, Reid and Ventsias showed up and attacked them, police said.

Both men were severely beaten, according to police, although only the 27-year-old lost consciousness. He reportedly remains hospitalized and clinging to life, and his survival is in doubt.

Reid and Ventsias were both arrested and taken to the Will County jail where they are still in custody. Reid’s bond was set at $1 million and Ventsias’ bond was set at $750,000.

The battery of bar owner Gelis was allegedly committed eight days before the vicious beating outside the Burger King.

Jeremy Durr, 23, got into a fight and struck Gelis, 54, when he went to break it up, police said. As a pair of bouncers were walking Durr out of Skooter’s, his wife, 25-year-old Ileana Leyva, allegedly hit one of them.

Durr failed to appear in court Friday and a warrant for his arrest was issued. He filed court papers explaining he was absent because the hearing conflicted with another case.