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DuPage County prosecutors have announced they intend to seek the death penalty in the case of Kaushik Patel, a Glendale Heights man who doused his sons in gasoline and set them on fire last November. Both boys died earlier this year from injuries related to the incident: Om, 4, in January and Vishv, 7, in February. Patel was also severely injured in the fire and has been the DuPage County jail on a $10 million cash bond since he was released in mid-February.
On the night of November 18, 2007, Patel allegedly doused his two sons and himself in gasoline and lit the fire, though he contends that his intent was only to harm himself, claiming it was a suicide attempt. After the fire, Patel drove the boys to his brother's house in Hanover Park where a relative called 911. In a March interview with the Daily Herald, Patel said, "It wasn't murder. No one understands. I love my kids. I was not trying to kill them, only me." Patel claims to have been suicidal stemming from family problems involving his live-in mother-in-law from his 1997 arranged marriage to the boys' mother, Nishaben. Authorities, though, don't believe Patel, citing the boys' more serious injuries and an alleged incriminating statement Patel made to his brother.
A date for the trial has yet to be set and might not occur for more than a year. Patel has already pleaded not guilty. [Trib, DH]
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My God, those eyes. Somebody please post something quick so we don't have to stare at this photo at the top of the page, please.
I remember how sick I felt when I read about this story before...and I still feel the same way now.
What a scary looking dude. and what a sick story.
Christ, you don't need a doc to pronounce that guy fucking cuckoo bananas.
You can't judge a book by it's...never mind.
My heart jumped out of my body when I opened Chicagoist just now and saw that face.
It's like that video that went around for a while, where you were supposed to study the screen and find out what was wrong with the picture, and then that little monkey appeared and screamed and you were jolted out of your reverie...anybody remember this?
This guy looks like that scary monkey face.
I remember the feeling I got when this story first came out. This is the first time I saw this guy's face.
There are just no words...the devastation that whole family must be going through...there are just no words.
yea that pic shouldn't even be posted. it should be a NSFW pic that says click this if you want to be disturbed.
seriously.
still trying to determine which is creepier, just about any photo of mike jackson or this dude.
In all fairness this guy looks this way because he was "severely injured in the fire" when he "allegedly doused ... himself in gasoline and lit the fire"
So yea, he's a burn victim by his own doing. So not so much a "victim" - more "fail" then anything.
o.k. I think we have seen enough. Its like he's gonna Hypnotize us if we keep looking
I didn't know Gollum lived in Glendale Heights.
Seriously a tragic and sad story.