As September 7, 2020 passes by, so does the three-year milestone of an unsolved triple homicide in the suburb of Joliet, Illinois. Anthony McGee, Manny Hernandez, and Gabriella M. Rueda were all gunned down after what the Joliet Police Department believes was a party at McGee’s home in the Cumberland subdivision near County Line Road.
All of the victims were 22 years old when they suffered the gunshot wounds and the shootings are not believed to be random. McGee, who was released from prison several months earlier and grew up at the house.
The Joliet Patch had reported on McGee before in 2013, covering an incident when the young man was charged with armed robbery. McGee was accused of holding a knife to a 15-year-old’s throat during a crime. McGee also spent months in jail in 2015 and 2016 after being charged with a possession of a firearm, possession of a stolen firearm, and possession of marijuana.
Despite the Joliet Patch also getting a quote from a neighbor saying “It’s a shocker”, McGee had a history. Regardless of his known history, there has been little progress in the case. Darrell Gavin, who was deputy chief of criminal investigations at the time, gave an interview to the Joliet Patch in 2019 where he claims the detectives did a “great job” focusing on a suspect- but the lack in legal strength of the case and cooperation is slowing their momentum.
“Cooperation can be the reason a case is solved quickly or why it takes time to arrest the ones responsible. At the beginning of this case we received some cooperation from people who were at the party or aware of information. We do know, however, that some of that initial information we received wasn’t a complete depiction of what occurred that night” Gavin told the Joliet Patch in 2019.
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