CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- A bizarre attack in the Fernwood neighborhood on Saturday left a husband and wife badly injured and missing parts of their ears.
In bond court on Monday, Judge John F. Lyke Jr. said he thought he was “listening to a horror movie.”
A man cleaning up an alley at 105th and Emerald was approached by a 28-year-old man identified as Elijah Rule Hill Prince, who was trying to sell something, and when the man said he wasn’t interested, a prosecutor said he was attacked.
According to Cook County prosecutors, Rule Hill Prince allegedly put the man in a chokehold and then hit the man in the head with the shovel. Rule Hill Prince went on to punch the man in the face, gouge his eyes with his fingers, bite his ears and the top of his head before spitting into the man’s mouth, the Sun-Times reported.
He also stuffed a three-inch block into the victim’s left eye, prosecutors said.
After hearing the commotion, the victim's wife came outside and was also attacked by Rule Hill Prince, the Sun Times reports.
Prosecutors said Rule Hill Prince also gouged her eyes, bit her ears, ripping off “large chunks,” and spit on her. After the woman fell to the ground, Rule Hill Prince allegedly kicked her head multiple times.
The woman’s husband called 911 after he pulled the wooden object out of his eye. But, according to the Sun-Times, Rule Hill Prince ran off after a witness came outside and yelled at him. He was arrested nearby a short time later.
Prosecutors said Rule Hill Prince’s mouth, face and elbows of his jackets were covered in blood. During the arrest, he allegedly told police the blood he was covered in was not his, but the “blood of peasants."
The couple were taken to a hospital in serious condition.
According to the Sun-Times, pieces of the couple’s ears were recovered in the alley, but could not be reattached, prosecutors said.
Rule Hill Prince was not present at his bond hearing. He was undergoing psychological evaluation.
Rule Hill Prince was charged with aggravated battery and attempted murder.
The judge ordered Rule Hill Prince held on $5 million bail. The judge said the allegations “shocks the conscious.”
Rule Hill Prince’s case is back in court May 10.
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