"A West Chicago husband and wife who drove almost every day to the back of their apartment complex to feed birds gathered there were severely beaten by another resident who, inexplicably, attacked them as they parked their pickup truck, police said.
Mireille Ellberg, 71, was critically injured early Sunday when she was punched, kicked and then run over with the couple's own vehicle, police and prosecutors said Monday.
Her 65-year-old husband, James, was punched and kicked repeatedly, then beaten again as he tried to aid his injured wife, authorities said.
The West Chicago man charged in the attacks, 21-year-old David Martinez Villareal, was arrested within five minutes -- still at the Main Park Apartments where both he and the victims lived. But authorities on Monday couldn't say what triggered a sudden, vicious attack that DuPage County State's Attorney Joseph Birkett described as "bizarre, inhuman behavior.
While authorities couldn't offer a possible motive for the attack, a roommate said Villareal had suffered from some type of mental illness. Answering the door at Villareal's apartment, the roommate -- speaking in Spanish through a translator -- said Villareal had been hospitalized previously at the Elgin Mental Health Center, although he couldn't say how recently that had occurred."
I have been listening to the discussions on local radio stations. One issue that has be brought up is that the attacker is a illegal allien.