Olaska Found Guilty In Murder of Naperville Teacher

A DuPage County jury found a Naperville man accused of stabbing a teacher to death and wounding two other man guilty of murder, WGN reported.

Daniel Olaska, 30, was found guilty of the murder of 24-year-old elementary school teacher Shaun Wild, after the teacher intervened in a fight in a downtown Naperville bar in February 2012.

The jury found Olaska not guilty on the two attempted murder counts of Wild’s friend, Willie Hayes, and Frankie’s Blue Room bouncer, Rafael Castenada.

Olaska’s attorneys contended that the former aviation manager had acted in self-defense when he stabbed Wild and his friend, Willie Hayes, at Frankie’s Blue Room because he was afraid that Hayes was going to beat him up.

Hayes, who admitted that he was intoxicated at the time of the fight, was stabbed in the chest but survived the attack.

Olaska was also accused of stabbing a bouncer, Rafael Castenada, who tried to stop Olaska from leaving the bar following the altercation.

DuPage County prosecutors said that Olaska, spurned by a woman he met that evening at Frankie’s Blue Room, was a “ticking time bomb.”

Olaska also allegedly stabbed a bouncer, Rafael Castenada, who tried to stop Olaska from leaving the bar following the altercation.

The jury got the case late Wednesday afternoon and deliberated throughout the evening at DuPage County Courthouse in Wheaton. The verdict was returned around 9:20 p.m., WGN reported.

Throughout the trial, both sides relied heavily on six different security cameras at Frankie’s Blue Room, which showed the fight unfold and its aftermath.

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