A morning walk in the Loop turned into a nightmare when a man armed with a nail-studded board allegedly beat a 67-year-old stranger unconscious, attacked a second man minutes later, and then fought with police as officers tried to arrest him, prosecutors said.
Judge John Hock ordered Darion Turley, 27, of River Grove, detained on five counts of aggravated battery stemming from the May 22 attacks.
According to prosecutors, Turley launched the first attack around 8:30 a.m. near Wabash Avenue and Roosevelt Road. They said he began yelling at a 67-year-old man before grabbing a three-foot-long wooden two-by-four with nails protruding from it and began swinging it “like a baseball bat.”
The victim used his cane to block some of the blows, but Turley knocked him to the ground and struck him in the head and left arm, prosecutors alleged. The attack left the man unconscious and with a broken arm. Paramedics took him to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where he underwent surgery and remained hospitalized as of earlier this week, according to court records…