DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert B. Berlin announced today Charles Mitchell, 27, (d.o.b. 7/12/1989) of 677 Roosevelt Road, Glen Ellyn, has been sentenced to ten years in the Illinois Department of Corrections for severely beating his sixty-one-year-old father in June, 2016. On March 9, 2017, a jury found Mitchell guilty of Aggravated Domestic Battery (Class 2 Felony) following a three-day-long trial in front of Judge Daniel Guerin, who handed down the sentence. On June 16, 2016, Mitchell appeared in Bond Court where his bond was at $1 million with 10% to apply. He has remained in custody at the DuPage County Jail since that time.
Today’s sentence stems from allegations that on June 14, 2016, at approximately 1:15 a.m., police officers responded to a domestic violence call at the hotel room Mitchell shared with his father and brother at 677 Roosevelt Road in Glen Ellyn. Upon their arrival, officers found all three men at the hotel. Mitchell’s father was suffering from multiple head injuries including a lacerated ear, a broken jaw and three missing teeth. He was immediately transported to a local hospital where he remained for one week to receive treatment for his injuries. An investigation into the matter revealed that Mitchell and his brother got into an altercation over a cell phone. Following the dispute with his brother, Mitchell got into a physical altercation with his father in which Mitchell struck and kicked his father about his head and body.
“On June 14, 2016, Charles Mitchell mercilessly beat his own father following a squabble with his brother over a cell phone,” Berlin said. “When he was finished, Mitchell, who claimed self-defense in the attack, left his father in a pool of blood and so badly injured that he spent the next week in a hospital in a drug-induced coma. Today, Mr. Mitchell learned that he will spend the next ten years behind bars for administering a brutal attack that nearly killed his father. I would like to thank Assistant State’s Attorneys Bethany Jackson and Megan McGuire Bachman for their efforts in holding Mr. Mitchell responsible for the injuries he inflicted upon his own father.”
Mitchell will be required to serve 85% of his sentence before being eligible for parole.
