Authorities say a 37-year-old man fatally shot another man in suburban Chicago after seeing the victim attend a movie with a woman he was likely stalking.
Kenneth S. Seplak of Round Lake Beach is charged with first-degree murder for the Dec. 23 death of 30-year-old David E. Gorski of Libertyville. A Lake County judge on Wednesday ordered Seplak held on $3 million bond.
Sgt. Christopher Covelli is spokesman for the Lake County Major Crime Task Force. He says Gorski was seeing a woman who was being stalked by Seplak. Covelli says that after seeing Gorski and the woman go to the movies together, Seplak followed Gorski in his car and shot him.
Defense attorney Steven McCollum says Seplak is a "steady guy" with no criminal history.
Gorski's family says his nickname was "Sweet Dave," he was an avid baseball player and was loved by family and friends.
He was at the movies Friday in Vernon Hills with a woman from Wauconda he'd known for a while, family said.
“The two arrived in separate vehicles and left in separate vehicles,” Covelli said. “Shortly after leaving was when he was found deceased in his vehicle with a gunshot wound.”
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“What investigators determined from Mr. Seplak’s cellphone and GPS tracking is that he was here at the movie theater when the victim was here with his girlfriend,” Covelli said.
He said a bullet extracted from Gorsky’s body during an autopsy matched a .38 caliber revolver found at a residence in unincorporated Antioch police have connected Seplak to.
Seplak’s attorney told NBC 5 that his client has no criminal background and the evidence against Seplak is circumstantial.
“[It’s] certainly a sad account for everybody that was involved.”
Gorsky worked for five years at Medline Medical Supplies and had a quiet nature about him, his family said.
Authorities say this is the first homicide in Libertyville in a decade.
