He Threatened To Kill Her, By Shooting Her As She Slept: Joliet Police

JOLIET, IL ? A 59-year-old man out of Shorewood, Leon Millsap, will be staying in the Will County Jail for an indefinite period now that Will County judge Daniel Kennedy has involved the SAFE-T-Act, following Milsap's recent Joliet police arrest on charges of aggravated battery, two counts of domestic battery and one more count of aggravated assault.

According to the prosecution's petition, on May 8, Joliet police were sent to 155 McDonough Street because Millsap "had threatened to kill the victim ... by shooting her in her sleep." Dispatchers relayed that Millsap hit her with a glass and tried to cut her throat with a butcher knife.

Joliet police found Millsap standing by the garage and he told them that an argument happened, and that she grabbed a knife out of the kitchen and then went at him with it.

The woman told the officers that she and Millsap broke up in January and she recently allowed him to move back in, on April 9. Since Millsap returned to her place, the two have argued and fought, the court files show.

"On the day of the incident, (she) advised she woke defendant up, while he was sleeping on the couch and stated he needed to leave the house," prosecutors informed the judge. Millsap "then became irate, threw glassware at (her) ... (she) grabbed a kitchen knife because she was afraid (Millsap) would batter her."

The court documents indicate that Millsap used the victim's own hand to place the knife she was holding up to her own throat. Millsap then grabbed a glass measuring cup and struck her across the face.

After his arrest, Millsap told Joliet police a different version of events, one that he had him being the victim.

Millsap maintained the woman stabbed him in the hand and cut his finger. He also claimed during the struggle, he "accidentally knocked over a piece of glassware in the kitchen, causing it to break. (He) denied putting the knife to (her) throat," court files suggest.

Prosecutors informed the judge that Millsap's criminal history dates back to 1995: his criminal past includes: retail theft in 2020, burglary in 2008, delivery of controlled substances in 2006, possession of controlled substances in 2005, domestic battery in 2001, retail theft in 1998 and domestic battery in 1995. All were Will County crimes.

"It is the order of this court that defendant shall be given access to his prescribed medications," the judge's ruling noted.