Woman's Eyes Almost Gouged Out At Crest Hill Inn: Prosecutors

JOLIET, IL — A 34-year-old Joliet man has remained in Will County's Jail after Will County prosecutors say Randy L. Williams attacked a woman at the Crest Hill Inn on Plainfield Road, causing her to lose one of her front teeth and nearly gouging out her left eye.

Williams has been charged by the Will County State's Attorney's Office of Jim Glasgow with aggravated domestic battery and three counts of domestic battery.

The incident happened on Oct. 27 and Williams, who comes from the 500 block of Wilcox Street, was booked into the Will County Jail by Crest Hill police during the early morning hours of Oct. 28.

Williams must remain incarcerated after a judge ruled in favor of the Will County State's Attorney's Office's petition to deny pretrial release for the Joliet resident.

According to the petition:

Crest Hill police were called to the Crest Hill Inn at 2109 Plainfield Road for an intoxicated driver. The caller told them that a woman took his 2008 red Dodge Avenger after a domestic violence incident. The officers found Williams in Room 123, and he told them he had been drinking and the woman grabbed a jar of change and threw it at him, hitting him in the side of his head.

Williams told the police he pinned the woman to the bed by her shoulders and that she left the motel and drove off in his vehicle, the court records show.

Officers found her at the Rides Unlimited at 1911 Plainfield Road, and she was hysterical; she had ruptured blood vessels in her left eye, plus redness and swelling under her eye. She also proceeded to pull out one of her front teeth.

"He tried to kill me. I want him arrested," she told officers, according to Will County prosecutors. She was taken by ambulance to St. Joe's hospital and following her treatment, Crest Hill police resumed their interview.

She told them she just bought a hamster at the store and that Williams became upset and began arguing with her about the hamster and a recent car crash. During the argument inside their motel room at the Crest Hill Inn, Williams got out of bed and dragged her to the ground by her hair and the back of the woman's head bounced off the ground, she told police.

Williams strangled her for 90 seconds with both hands, according to prosecutors, "before she lost consciousness" and "she could see the color black, red and stars."

The woman told Crest Hill police that Williams tried to gouge her eyeballs out and he used his knees, forearms and foot in trying to strangle her.

According to prosecutors, Williams' criminal past includes a 2012 conviction for criminal damage to property out of Vermilion County in Danville resulting in a three-year sentence to the Illinois Department of Corrections, a 2012 resisting arrest conviction from Vermilion, a probation sentence for a 2010 conviction from Edgar County for possession of controlled substances and 10 years at the DOC for a 2012 Vermilion County conviction for aggravated DUI involving death.