Four charged in St. Charles stabbing death
Blood found on both sides of Main Street
Court Update: Four men accused of participating in the stabbing of a St. Charles man had their bail set Tuesday in Kane County court.
Brothers Arthur Manning, 57, and Guy Manning, 51; and Willie Wimberly, 55, all of St. Charles, were all charged with murder. Bond was set at $1 million each.
(Marina Makropoulos/Staff Photographer)
Bottom: Willie Wimberly (left) and Darren Barnett
(St. Charles Police Department)
Brothers Arthur Manning, 57, and Guy Manning, 51; and Willie Wimberly, 55, all of St. Charles, were all charged with murder. Bond was set at $1 million each.
Another man, Darren Barnett, 42, also of St. Charles, was charged with felony obstruction of justice and had his bail set at $30,000.
Ages and exact addresses were not available Tuesday afternoon.
All four men appeared in Kane County court Tuesday afternoon.
According to prosecutors, the victim, Naromi Mannery, 28, came to a house in the 900 block of West Main Street. An argument ensued and Wimberly allegedly punched Mannery; Guy Manning allegedly hit him with a chair and Arthur Manning allegedly stabbed him in the chest, neck and right arm, prosecutors said. Mannery was found unresponsive on the sidewalk near the house and died early the next morning.
Barnett is accused of trying to wash away Mannery’s blood, prosecutors said.
Update: ST. CHARLES – Four people have been charged in connection with a fatal stabbing of a 28-year-old St. Charles man. The four are scheduled to appear at an afternoon bond hearing. Details on the four people who have been in police custody since Monday, or the charges against them, have not been released.
Naromi Mannery, 28, of St. Charles died of a stab wound to the chest early Monday, hours after he was discovered bleeding and unresponsive on a sidewalk in the 1000 block of West Main Street.
As part of the investigation, police cordoned off a home a half-block away on the north side of Main, which was described as the scene of an assault on Mannery. After the attack, he walked west and then crossed the street before collapsing, police said.
Original Story: Charges are expected to be filed today in connection with the fatal stabbing of a St. Charles man late Sunday evening.
As many as 50 officers from St. Charles and the Kane County Major Case Task Force took part in the investigation, which began at 11:58 p.m. Sunday, when 28-year-old Naromi Mannery was found unresponsive with multiple stab wounds on a sidewalk in the 1000 block of West Main Street.
He died three hours later at Delnor-Community Hospital of a stab wound to the chest, according to the coroner's office.
Four people were being held at the Kane County jail Monday night, but police did not offer any more details on how they might be connected to the murder. St. Charles police spokesman Paul McCurtain said investigators were not seeking anyone else for questioning.
Police interviewed eight people who were living at a house in the 900 block of West Main Street, where police say Mannery was the victim of an assault.
Yellow tape blocked off that two-story home Monday morning, while police checked stairways, yards and an area near the alley. At one point, police blocked late-morning traffic on the busy four-lane road as an investigator with a camera closely studied a bloodstain in front of a business on Main Street's south side, near 10th Street -- the spot where Mannery collapsed. A series of blood drops on sidewalks on both sides of Main created a trail from the house, McCurtain said.
Police would not say whether a weapon had been recovered.
"Several items of evidence were collected from the scene," McCurtain said.
Brandon Petschow has lived next door to the house on Main Street for a year and a half. He described the neighbors as a sometimes "obnoxious" bunch, but never had any run-ins with the several people who lived there.
Petschow, whose second floor apartment overlooks the scene, was awakened by police knocking on his door. Investigators asked him if had heard any "screams or cries for help," but Petschow didn't hear anything.
Court records list an Oak Street address for Mannery. An automated recording said the phone number listed for it was being tested for trouble Monday afternoon.
