(WBBM NEWSRADIO) – A 46-year-old Hanover Park man has been denied bond for allegedly stabbing his roommate in the head over an argument about a cell phone, authorities said.
Wilfredo Gonzalez was charged with armed violence and aggravated battery after, prosecutors say, he attacked his roommate around 10:30 p.m. Thursday.
Police say they responded to a call of a stabbing at a residence on Leeward Lane and found Gonzalez and another man, who had “blood gushing from his head,” according to a news release from the DuPage County State’s Attorney’s Office.
Police determined the victim, who lived in a basement unit with Gonzalez, had asked the other man to turn his cell phone down. Gonzalez allegedly kicked the other man in the head and then grabbed a butcher knife and stabbed the roommate in the head.
The victim and his wife and their 7-year-old daughter reportedly lived together with Gonzales.
“It is alleged that a verbal altercation over something as trivial as the volume of a cell phone turned violent, sending a man to the hospital with a serious head injury,” DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert Berlin said. “Disagreements between people will happen, but when those disagreements escalate and become violent, anyone accused of violence will be arrested, charged and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”
The stabbing victim was taken to a hospital, where he received 10 staples in his head to close a four-inch laceration and three staples to close a laceration in his hand, officials said.
Gonzalez is next scheduled to be in court Nov. 28.
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