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One arrested in homicide case, two suspects still at large TYLER DAVIS | @TDavis_DE
Nearly 36 hours after a man was shot and another was killed Sunday morning, Carbondale police announced an arrest has been made in the case and two men are being searched for. Carbondale police spokesman Sgt. Corey Kemp said police arrested 21-year-old Dwayne J. Dunn Jr., of St. Louis, charging him with reckless discharge of a firearm at a party after shots were fired about 2 a.m. Sunday at 402 W. Walnut Sgt. Kemp could not confirm if Dunn’s shots killed Tim Beaty, 41, who was in his bedroom in a neighboring house. Dunn was arrested early Sunday after the party and is being held at Jackson County Jail on $500,000 bond. Monday was the first time police released information about any arrests or suspects in the case. Kemp said he also could not comment about the status of a second male who suffered a non-life threatening gunshot wound. The Daily Egyptian, as well as other news outlets, had attempted to get confirmation about the shooting, victims and suspects on the case since about 3 a.m. Sunday. He said because he does not work on the weekends, it is difficult to relay information to the media. He said he came in Sunday to write a brief news release about the shooting. Usually, if Kemp is not in the office, the sergeant or lieutenant on duty can answer questions from the media. “It’s a process, usually the sergeant will pass [information] along for someone to call back,” he said. “I always have my phone on me — I’m not going to give you my phone number — but you can email me and I’ll get back to you.” Police are looking for other suspects, but Kemp could not comment on their descriptions or if they are SIU students. By the Daily Egyptian’s count, Kemp said “no comment” at least 19 times during 14-minute news conference Monday. “Due to the nature of investigations, we cannot jeopardize anything that may come in the future, so we withhold certain information to make sure our investigation is all inclusive, and we cover all of our bases,” he said He said no information was available about the number of shots fired, the nature of the second victim’s injury, how the bullets entered Baity’s home or who owns the home at 402 W. Walnut St. The shooting was at least the fourth Carbondale incident involving a gun in 2016. Kemp said the department will continue to talk to residents to try to prevent violent crimes. “This is your police department, this is your community, we do a lot, but we need help also,” he said. “That’s one thing — we make sure the community is out there helping us also. ... We make sure we do our due diligence.” When officers responded to the home Sunday, they encountered a large group of partiers leaving the residence after an altercation, Kemp said. He said shots were fired both inside and outside the home. Kemp could not confirm if the home or party had anything to do with SIU students or any SIU organization. He said the department and city have considered ways to limit large gatherings that can turn violent, but must respect people’s right to assemble. Tyler Davis can be reached at tdavis@dailyegyptian.com or 618-536-3325.
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Friends remember Tim Beaty BILL LUKITSCH | @Bill_LukitschDE
Tim Beaty was the kind of drummer who would take the stage in his underwear. “That’s just the way he played,” said Jacky Schmedt, a longtime friend of the Carbondale man whose sudden death has shocked and rattled friends and family in the area. “He was the kind of person that anytime you felt you were out of place somewhere, you weren’t out of place because you were hanging out with him,” she said. “He’d find a way to bring you in to feel comfortable wherever you were.” A house party on the 400 block of West Walnut Street ended in gunfire about 2 a.m. Sunday following an altercation, according to Carbondale police. Beaty, 41, was an uninvolved bystander struck and killed by a stray bullet while in his bed at home, police said. He leaves behind a 5-year-old son. “I just felt like the light in my heart turned off,” Schmedt said of how she felt
learning the news. “I mean, what a freak accident. Accident is not even the right word … he should’ve been at the concert across the street, he should have been at Lost Cross closing it down or with his friends.” After the news broke, friends of Beaty gathered near the two places he frequented: the Lost Cross house and PK’s bar. Beaty, who moved to Carbondale in 2000, played drums and hung out at Lost Cross, a popular music venue in Carbondale. “We’re a PK’s family,” Shmedt said. “It starts at PK’s and it spreads out, and you just build up friendship with folks those who become a part of your life.” It was easier for Walter Witkewiz, a longtime friend of Beaty’s who works as a bartender at PK’s, to count the days he didn’t spend time with Beaty than the ones he did. “He definitely had a personal mug,” Witkewiz said. “We kept it full [Sunday] at the bar and kept drinking out of it for him.”
Now, that mug rests near a candle and portrait on Witkewiz’s side of the bar. Beaty was remembered by many as a spectacular musician, good friend and loving father. Dozens posted on his Facebook wall in the hours after he was found to swap favorite memories and highlight moments true to Beaty’s character. Everything from details about good nights at Lost Cross to his fandom for professional wrestling can be found in the posts. Hannah White said she first met Beaty during a show at Lost Cross two years ago when she was new to town. He made a point to introduce her to new people, she said. “[Beaty] was just a really sweet dude and, from hearing everybody else’s stories, he was great just to have in the scene,” said White, a senior from Pekin studying art. Please see REMEMBER | 3
Will chicken waste endanger Carbondale’s drinking water? TYLER CROTZER | @TylerCrotzer_DE
Farm owner Everett Kauffman is nearing completion on a cage-free chicken farm that would house some 25,000 laying hens about a quarter-mile from Cedar Lake, the municipal water supply for Carbondale and surrounding towns. This has caused about 600 people from Jackson County to sign a change.org petition to end construction. The petition has been signed by a total of nearly 6,000 Illinois residents. Kauffman declined to comment for this story.
The Illinois Department of Agriculture calculates farm size in “animal units” by predicting the amount of waste an animal produces, said Nick Anderson, a member of the Illinois Livestock Development Group who works with Kauffman. Chickens only account for .01 of an animal unit, meaning 25,000 chickens would equate to 250 animal units, according to the department’s website. “From the standards of the Livestock Management Facility Act and the Environmental Protection Agency, he is a very small farm,” Anderson said. Anderson said Kauffman has met all the requirements dictated by the department’s
Livestock Management Facility Act and the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Water Act. The building where the chickens are cooped and the waste-storage shed are contained by 5-inch-thick reinforced concrete that is water and nutrient tight as to not allow for a breach of waste material. Not only are people concerned that feces could breach the facility, some say there could be waste run-off from manure applied to crops. To read more, please read www.dailyegyptian.com