JOLIET, IL — Sept. 7 marks the three-year anniversary since three people were gunned down inside a house in Joliet's Cumberland subdivision near County Line Road. The Joliet Police Department has been unable to crack the case. No arrests have occurred since Joliet police found the bodies of ex-convict Anthony McGee, who grew up at the house; Manny Hernandez of Plainfield; and Gabriella M. Rueda, of West Chicago.
All three homicide victims were 22 years old and suffered multiple gunshot wounds.
In 2018, Joliet Patch reported that the Joliet Police Department had determined there was a small party at Anthony McGee's home, and investigators did not believe the killings were random. McGee, the likely target, was a violent ex-convict who got out of the state pen a few months earlier.
Gang retaliation or drugs, or a combination, are believed to be factors in the killings, Patch has also previously reported. In 2013 when McGee was 18 years old, he was charged with armed robbery. He was accused of putting a knife to a 16-year-old boy's throat during a crime on Wesmere Parkway near Caton Farm Road. McGee was also in jail for several months in 2015 and 2016 after being arrested by the Joliet Police Department on charges of being a felon in possession of a firearm, possession of a stolen firearm and possession of marijuana.
"It's a shocker," one of the Great Falls Drive neighbors told Joliet Patch within days of the triple homicide. "There was nothing out of the ordinary, just your average American family. It's just shocking. It's very speechless."
At the time of the triple homicide, the Joliet Police Chief was Brian Benton and the Criminal Investigations Division was led by Deputy Chief Al Roechner. In 2018, Benton retired and the Joliet City Council elevated Roechner to its permanent chief of police December 2018.
As chief, Roechner has not used the Joliet Police Department's Facebook page, Will County Crime Stoppers website or solicited the community's help on social media for additional tips in hopes of solving one of Joliet's most high-profile multiple murders of the past decade.
Last year, at the two-year anniversary, Joliet Patch reached out to Darrell Gavin, who was then deputy chief of criminal investigations, for an update.
During that interview, Gavin informed Patch that "detectives did a great job in identifying the suspect early in the investigation. The problem with this particular case is there is not enough at this point in the investigation to establish the legal burden of probable cause for his arrest on that case just yet.
"Cooperation can be the reason a case is solved quickly or why it takes time to arrest the ones responsible. At the beginning of this case we received some cooperation from people who were at the party or aware of information. We do know, however, that some of that initial information we received wasn't a complete depiction of what occurred that night. This makes the investigation harder to solve when people are not willing to cooperate fully with our detectives."
In 2019, Patch asked Gavin if the Joliet community should realize the triple homicide may stay unsolved for a long time.
"There is reason for optimism," Gavin remarked last year. "I think it is premature to believe there isn't. Time is typically on our side. Friendships deteriorate, relationships sour, and people who know information sometimes give information they have to help themselves out of a legal problem. Our suspect is also currently incarcerated for other crimes from one of our other cases that our detectives were able to tie him to."
In May, Patch reported that Gavin was reshuffled out of the criminal investigations unit and made deputy chief of administration.
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