CHICAGOAN DYWAYNE HEAD PLEADS GUILTY TO HOME INVASION, SENTENCED TO 20 YEARS

WHEATON - DuPage County State’s Attorney Joe Birkett announced today that Dywayne D. Head, 19 (d.o.b. 12/11/1988) of Chicago, entered a plea of guilty to one count of Home Invasion in front of Judge Peter Dockery for his role in a home invasion that resulted in the death of 46 year-old James R. Keniski of Villa Park.  As part of the agreed plea Head was sentenced to twenty years in the Illinois Department of Corrections.  Head has also agreed to cooperate and provide truthful testimony if called as a witness in any potential trial of his co-defendants.

It is alleged that on May 16^th 2007, Head and his co-defendants went to Mr. Keniski’s home with the intent of robbing him.  During the course of the alleged robbery, it is further alleged that Mr. Keniski was pushed over a banister, falling approximately ten feet, and repeatedly stepped on by one of the defendants.  An investigation by the Villa Park Police Department ultimately led to the apprehension of four defendants. 

“Today, Mr. Head accepted responsibility for his actions on the night of May 16, 2007,” commented Birkett.  “This case is far from over however.  A man lost his life in his own home at the hands of intruders.   This bold attack on an un-armed, out-numbered man must not go unpunished and will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law”

Head’s co-defendants are still in custody each facing First Degree Murder Charges.   

Members of the public are reminded that these complaints contain only charges and are not proof of the defendants’ guilt.  Head’s co-defendants are presumed innocent and are entitled to a fair trial in which it is the government’s burden to prove their guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.

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