Kyle Blits

A man is charged with murdering a man in West Dundee by beating him.

Kyle Blits, 34, is accused of killing Thomas Hanetho, 65, of Hampshire.

The incident happened on April 22, according to an April 23 press release from West Dundee police.

Hanetho died of his injuries on May 1 at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. The cause was complications of blunt force trauma to his head, according to the medical examiner’s office. The office said the incident happened in the 400 block of South Third Street in West Dundee.

The murder charge was filed on May 8.

Police said they responded to the Third Street home for a report of a man beating two other men. The caller said Blits had punched him and was beating Hanetho

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