Joliet Murder Defendant Guilty In Denny's Restaurant Killing
JOLIET — At 2:30 p.m. Friday, Will County Judge Amy Bertani-Tomczak read the jury verdicts, informing Joshua Anderson that he is guilty of first-degree murder and three other crimes for the 2019 death of a Crest Hill man who slain at the Joliet Denny's Restaurant parking lot on Route 30.
Anderson was found guilty of all four crimes: murder, armed robbery, robbery and armed robbery involving a gun. Anderson turned his chair around as he sat with his two Will County Public Defenders, choosing to turn his back on the jury as the judge was reading the verdicts.
A Chicago resident, Anderson was the last of the three co-defendants in the violent crime solved by the Joliet Police Department.
The judge previously sentenced co-defendant Bobbie Jo Ollom to 18 years of imprisonment. In October, Christopher Parker, the actual shooter, entered a guilty plea and received a 37-and-a-half-year prison sentence. Parker pleaded guilty to first-degree murder for ending the life of Crest Hill resident Gregory Brown in the parking lot of the Denny's Restaurant on Joliet's Plainfield Road.
The guilty pleas and sentences for Parker and Ollom only left one co-defendant left. Joshua Anderson, whose jury trial began this week on December 9 in Courtroom 405.
Following Friday's verdict, the judge revoked Anderson's bond. Anderson remains in the Will County Jail,
