Kane County Reporter

The victim of a shooting in St. Charles had a long arrest history, including arrests involving three drive-by shootings, and had recently received a PPP loan that may be fraudulent.

Khalief McAllister, 23, was identified by the Daily Herald as being killed in a shooting at the Trilogy nightclub located at 2051 Lincoln Highway in St. Charles.

McAllister was one of four shooting victims. Two others underwent emergency surgery for gunshot wounds and another was treated and released.

McAllister, who was living in DeKalb County, has a long arrest record, including several gun- and shooting-related charges.

In July 2017 he was arrested and charged with possession of marijuana. In July 2020 the case was left incomplete.

On Aug. 3, 2017 he was again arrested and charged with aggravated discharge of a firearm. He was let out on $1,000 bail and was set for another hearing in September.

On Oct. 7, 2017 he was arrested and released under home surveillance for allegedly discharging a firearm and mob action. He was let out on $5,000 bail and according to the court record did not show up to court appearances thereafter.

He was still under scrutiny for that charge and had a status hearing set for September.

Less than three weeks later on Oct. 31, 2017 McAllister was again charged, this time for attempted murder, armed violence and aggravated discharge of a firearm. He was later released on a $5,000 bond.

Courts stretched the cases out over the course of years and allowed McAllister to remain free on bail despite repeated arrests.

After one of the shootings, McAllister fled to Georgia, but was still later released on bail.

In fact, last year when McAllister was arrested on a DUI charge, he was able to make bail that day instead of being locked up.

“On Dec. 13, 2020, McAllister was driving with his headlights off at 2:38 a.m. in Chicago’s West Ridge neighborhood on the far north side when police pulled him over. He was arrested and charged with smoking marijuana while driving, driving on a suspended license and driving without insurance. McAllister was released on a $2,000 bond,” the police report reads.

Earlier this year McAllister received a $20,000 PPP loan from Itria Ventures LLC.

The loan does not list a company for McAllister or what business he was involved in.

Itria Ventures has been accused of predatory behavior during the Covid pandemic.

Nearby business owners are reportedly worried about the area after the shooting, according to the Daily Herald.

DeKalb County, where McAllister was residing, is hardly better, according to a recent Reddit post by a Northern Illinois University graduate. The poster summed up the feeling of many regarding DeKalb’s descent into criminal mayhem.

“The lady working at the bar (where I always sit in fine dining establishments) said that she had lived in Dekalb for a while,” the NIU alum wrote. “She called it the ghetto. She said the area around the university had become infested with inner city kids all got grants and easy-admissions to attend the university, but often dropped or were kicked-out without graduating. Then, instead of moving back to Chicago, they hung around DeKalb, mostly not working, going to school, or anything at all.”

McAllister lived in the Lincoln Tower Apartments, located at 1100 W. Lincoln Highway in DeKalb, at the time of his death.