Abhijit Patel, a 28-year-old Indian-origin man in Illinois was arrested and charged with first-degree homicide after his father was discovered lifeless at their household residence over the Thanksgiving weekend. Patel killed his father, 67-year-old Anupam Patel, with a sledgehammer on November 29. When police appeared on the scene, Anupam Patel was unresponsive in his bed room with extreme head accidents and was pronounced lifeless later. The sledgehammer was discovered close to the sufferer’s mattress. Abhijit surrendered to the police and the court docket was knowledgeable that he had a historical past of psychological well being points. He was beforehand identified with schizophrenia and was hospitalized for remedy. On the time of the homicide, he was barred from contacting his father as he had made threats to kill his father earlier too. After the arrest, he instructed the police that he had a non secular obligation to homicide his father as a result of his father purportedly abused him when he was a toddler. In accordance with stories, Anupam Patel was a diabetic and his spouse used to observe his glucose degree through an app. Each morning, Anupam used to ship her his blood scugar degree however on that day, she didn’t obtain any replace. When she was at work she panicked when she discovered that her husband’s glucose ranges had been dropping. She referred to as and when nobody picked up the decision, she went again to her residence to seek out his son who instructed her to go and examine on the daddy. “I’ve taken care of him,” Abhijit mentioned. The court docket was knowledgeable that Abhijit Patel displayed many disturbing habits in previous owing to which he was banned from his college campus. In November 2024, he allegedly made regarding feedback on social media and in group chats to his fellow college students on the College of Illinois Chicago. He was banned from campus till he was evaluated by a psychiatrist.
