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HOLIDAY HILLS SHOOTING TRIAL
JURORS FIND SCOTT B. PETERS
GUILTY OF ATTEMPTED FIRST-DEGREE MURDER; FACES UP TO LIFE IN PRISON
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By CHELSEA McDOUGALL cmcdougall@shawmedia.com WOODSTOCK – Scott Peters sat motionless looking forward as a judge read his verdict in front of a packed courtroom. “We the jury, find Scott Peters guilty,” Judge Sharon Prather read aloud to each of Peters’ 15 charges, including seven for attempted murder of a police officer. Peters fired more than a dozen rounds at McHenry County Sheriff’s Deputies Dwight Maness, Khalia Satkiewicz and Eric Luna who responded to his Holiday Hills home on Oct. 16, 2014, for a well-being check. As the deputies retreated, Peters fired more rounds from his AR-15, eventually shooting Maness in the back and leg, and Satkiewicz in the leg and chest, although her vest stopped that bullet. “It was very hard, all the emotion that I felt that night,” Deputy Satkiewicz said after the verdict was read – her voice trembling as she held back tears. “It comes back to you.”
I’m the real Airborne Ranger right here. I have the determination, I will put in the hard work. I will walk again. I want to show him that he didn’t win.” Dwight Maness Deputy injured while responding to a wellbeing check on Scott B. Peters’ wife in October Outside the courtroom, McHenry County sheriff’s deputies lined the hallway and clapped as Maness – flanked by his wife and stepdaughter – was wheeled out of the courtroom. Deputies Satkiewicz and Luna walked alongside with their families.
See PETERS, page A8
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Deputy Khalia Satkiewicz and her husband, Illinois State Police Major Sgt. Robert Satkiewicz (above), and Deputy Dwight Maness (right) leave the McHenry County Government Center on Thursday in Woodstock after Scott B. Peters (top) was found guilty of all charges in the Holiday Hills shooting in October. Deputies Maness and Satkiewicz were injured while responding to a well-being check on Peters’ wife.
Trustees to vote on resolution opposing consolidation bill By EMILY K. COLEMAN ecoleman@shawmedia.com
State Sen. Pam Althoff
WOODSTOCK – The McHenry County Conservation District doesn’t want a proposed consolidation bill to apply to it – or at least its Board of Trustees is considering a resolution voicing that sentiment. The board’s president, David
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Brandt of Wonder Lake, asked district staff to arrange a special meeting to consider a resolution opposing the bill after spending Tuesday and Wednesday in Springfield as part of the Illinois Association of Park Districts’ Parks Day, in which park and conservation district representatives make the rounds at the statehouse.
The district had been following the bill, but a visit with state Sen. Pam Althoff – who signed on as the chief sponsor of the bill in the Senate despite objections from the bill’s original sponsor in the House – gave him a “sense of urgency,” Brandt said. House Bill 229, which passed the Illinois House on a 61-40 vote last Friday, would give
the McHenry and Lake county boards the ability to eliminate certain units of government. The DuPage County Board had been given this power in 2013. That sense of urgency is why the meeting is scheduled for 8 a.m. Saturday, not a typical time for the conservation district’s Board of Trustees to meet. Brandt said he doesn’t oppose
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