Woman Strangled With Shoestring, Fleeing Attacker Crashes: Cops

Joliet IL

11 February, 2022

4:49 PM

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JOLIET, IL — Joliet police have arrested a 31-year-old Bolingbrook man who used a shoelace to strangle a woman unconscious at the Lois Place apartments, according to police. Trying to avoid arrest, Dwane Collins crashed into someone's car on Black Road, causing that person to hit another vehicle, according to police. Collins was booked into the Will County Jail on charges of aggravated domestic battery, aggravated fleeing/eluding a peace officer and obstructing a peace officer. Shortly before 7 a.m. Thursday, Joliet officers learned of a domestic violence disturbance in the 900 block of Lois Police. The previous night, Collins had attacked a woman he knew inside his car, according to police. "Collins became angry and strangled the victim with a shoestring to the point of losing consciousness," police spokesman Dwayne English stated. "The victim was able to get away from Collins and went back to her apartment." When Collins returned to her apartment Thursday morning, the woman called 911, according to Joliet police. When officers tried to question Collins in the apartment building's hallway, he ran outside to his car, police indicated. "Collins fled southbound on Lois Place and disobeyed the (stop sign) at Black Road, striking a vehicle that was westbound on Black Road," English announced. "This collision then forced the westbound vehicle into another vehicle that was westbound on Black Road." The other motorists were not injured, Joliet police said. After Collins sped away from the crash scene, he drove back to his residence in Bolingbrook and that's where Bolingbrook police officers found him, according to police reports. Bail for Collins, who lives in the 300 block of Bolingbrook's Fox Bend Circle, was set at $200,000. He remained in the Will County Jail on Friday afternoon.