Exulam I. Holman, Joliet Man, Allegedly Gouged Out Uncle's Eyes In Argument Over Remote

A suburban Chicago man was accused Tuesday of gouging his uncle's eyes out during an argument over the TV remote control on New Year's Eve.

Exulam I. Holman, 32, of Joliet, Ill. was charged with aggravated domestic battery and ordered held on $1 million bond in the incident.

According to the Will County Sheriff's Department, police were called to a home in the 1100 block of McKay Street in Joliet, where they discovered the 62-year-old victim, Holman's uncle, with his eyeballs protruding from his eye sockets and blood streaming down his face, AP reports. The victim told police his nephew had pinned him to the ground and used his thumbs in an attempt to pry his eyes from his face.

The man told police that he and his nephew had been arguing over control of the TV remote control, CBS Chicago reports.

The victim was taken to Silver Cross Hospital and then transferred to the University of Illinois at Chicago Hospital where he will require surgery to restore limited vision in his right eye. The victim, according to CBS, is now blind in his left eye.

Comments

[dcrazysnake]

07:22 PM on 01/07/2012

Hey Huff Post get off your Butts and read some of these comments and either post or don't post.

[XS VENOM]

07:23 PM on 01/06/2012

I'm sure he will get plenty of rest and relaxation in his new cell. A nice warm place to sleep, plenty of friends, food, medicine, dental. He is hooked up now, better than before. Now he has free cable TV as well. Ahh yes living the life now.

Ho hum, the same old same old. Morons like this need a chain around their ankle and put to WORK! I'm talking about hard work, 8 hours a day 7 days a week. The roadways are filthy, garbage all around, they can get to work picking up trash. They can rake leaves in the park. Paint walls that need painting. Enough is enough, put these clowns to WORK! No breaks, no relax, no time out, no nonsense.

Our judicial system is a joke.

[emmeaki]

01:06 AM on 01/06/2012

If this is what he does over a remote control, I can't imagine what he's do over a serious matter.

[yousaytheNwordwhycanti]

08:41 PM on 01/05/2012

All in favor of parents being allowed to beat their kids (to a point), in or that they learn respect and reverence towards society.....say....... I

[Ossit]

10:10 AM on 01/07/2012

That's just sick, yousaytheNwordwhycanti. Shame you think beating kids is normal. You don't learn respect by being beaten. You become a beater.

[yousaytheNwordwhycanti]

06:28 PM on 01/07/2012

Who said it was normal, first of all! And did you happen to process the other part ( to a point ) or where you just wanting to get on a soapbox, nit pick and try to make a point out of a small part of that entire statement. Trick please. This fool would have a different train of thought if he would have got his (tush reddened some). Is that better. You live your P.C. life with your bad ass kids, so the rest of society has to take up the job of teaching your kids what respect is and isn't. Be gone fool.

[dcrazysnake]

06:45 PM on 01/07/2012

I had my butt spanked afew times when I was a kid. And it taught me to respect my elders and the Law. There is a big differents in a " beating and a spanking". The old saying is true......."spare the rod and spoil the child". Look around and see if this isn't true!

[ms eve]

12:27 AM on 01/05/2012

This guy belongs in a cage - not a prison cell. This so violates any standard of human decency that he should never be allowed to interact with people again. Throw his food into the cell and drag him by his shackles into the shower once a week..No TV, no books, no basketball, no internet, no nothing. Let him have shoelaces and ropes to play with and maybe, possibly for the first time in his life, he will do the right thing and end his own life. This degree of depravity is not fit for human society. Keep him in a cage, preferably a pitch-dark one.

[charleyvldm9]

06:41 PM on 01/04/2012

Weird crime,not in Chicago again.

[sevnwolves]

05:19 PM on 01/04/2012

I see he has his "I am one bad mo-fo" teardrop tats under his eyes. Oooooooooooooooo....we better all be so very afraid of the piece of trash.

[grannyfly16]

05:15 PM on 01/04/2012

Wow,what did he want to watch the "biggest Loser" and I bet it wasn't his tv or home.Judge ,please ban him from life to be in contact with a tv control or tv,and please do a study on his brain now and every year he breathes in prison.This 32 year old still having temper tantrums is appalling and the braids must have been too tight for circulation.Seniors be aware of entertaining unemployed relatives in your home ,when wheeloffortune and family feud or CSI or Law and Order/Blue Blood on.Joliet judicial system keep this man in solitary for any human being.

[congbuster]

03:58 PM on 01/04/2012

go ahead huff post and just censor everything you guys suck

[J Osteen]

03:28 PM on 01/04/2012

Animal needs to be put to sleep - soon.

[congbuster]

03:57 PM on 01/04/2012

animals dont do these type of things,this kind of behavior is reserved for humans

[bluefalcon06]

10:38 PM on 01/04/2012

Humans are animals, though,

[tissa]

03:16 PM on 01/04/2012

Joliet is worse than the south side of Chicago at this point.

[Milan Lemmon]

02:54 PM on 01/04/2012

The kid who did this to his uncle is nothing but a punk

[kp1975]

02:50 PM on 01/04/2012

Such a senseless act... Hope he gets what's coming to him and I hope his uncle recovers as well as he possibly can and gets to have some sort of a normal life... not likely though...

[grope and change]

01:31 PM on 01/04/2012

He looks so sad in the mug shot............he can't stop his tears from falling.

[Entheo]

12:35 PM on 01/04/2012

let the Wookiee win.

[LiberalUnderYourBed]

12:57 PM on 01/04/2012

No kidding!