Police in Champaign have arrested two people they believe were involved in a beating outside a party that led to several people being shot. Police arrested 20-year-old Johnnie Holbrook of Champaign and a 16-year-old Champaign boy. They are charged with aggravated battery in the Sept. 25 beating. Neither suspect has entered a plea nor has an attorney.
Police have said a dispute led to the beating of a 22-year-old man outside the party near the University of Illinois campus. A short time later four bystanders were shot. One, 22-year-old George Korchev of Mundelein, died.
Robbie Patton, an 18-year-old Champaign man, has been charged with murder. So far three people have been arrested in connection to the beating.
