Crime & Safety
Son of Murder-Suicide Couple Charged With Felony For Jailhouse Fight
He and his brother are in jail for their own murder case.
JOLIET, IL — The son of a husband and wife killed last weekend in an apparent murder-suicide was charged with a felony for his alleged part in a jailhouse fight.
Blaique Morgan, 20, has been in the Will County jail since January 2016, when he was charged with the murder of his next-door neighbor, Robert Bielec.
Morgan’s brother, Amari Morgan, was also charged with murdering Bielec, but was only 17 at the time and was held at River Valley Juvenile Detention Center. Amari Morgan joined his brother in the county jail when he turned 18 in March.
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Bielec had just pulled into the driveway of his Houston Avenue home when the Morgan brothers walked up and confronted him about an “ongoing dispute,” Assistant State’s Attorney John Connor said during their bond hearing.
During the ensuing argument, Bielec made a sexual remark about the Morgans’ little sister, Connor said. Amari Morgan then allegedly swung a bat at Bielec’s head, killing him.
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Bielec’s “skull was caved in,” Connor said.
Bielec’s female roommate reportedly heard the commotion outside her home. When she went to see what was going on, she found Bielec dead in the driveway.
On Tuesday, Blaique Morgan and another inmate argued over commissary items one owed the other, police said, and a “minor scuffle broke out.”
The other inmate “retreated to a cell where Morgan proceeded to jump on (him) and punch him several times in the facial area,” police said.
The beaten man was taken from the jail to an unspecified hospital, where he was treated before he was returned to custody.
Two days prior to Blaique Morgan’s alleged jail fight, his parents, Angel Morgan, 42, and Patrick Morgan, 49, were found shot to death in their North Bluff Street apartment. Angel Morgan had been shot multiple times, police said, and Patrick Morgan had been shot once. A handgun was reportedly found near the bodies.
Detectives believe the killings were a murder suicide.
Blaique Morgan | image via Will County Sheriff's Department
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