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Exulam I. Holman (pictured), a Will County, Ill., resident, allegedly gouged out his uncle’s eyes, after the two men struggled for control of a TV remote on New Year’s Eve, according to the Sun Times.

After 10 p.m. on Saturday, the local sheriff’s department was called to a home that had cries coming from the basement. What police discovered was a 62-year-old man lying on the floor screaming for help. The elderly man, whose name has not been released, had both eyeballs dangling about a quarter inch from his face.

The man reportedly told police that he and his 32-year-old nephew had been fussing over the remote control. After breaking the remote in a fit of rage, Holman, who is 140 pounds heavier and five inches taller than the uncle, allegedly flung the uncle to the floor and then straddled him. According to the uncle, once Holman dislodged his eyeballs out of their sockets with his thumbs, he pushed him down the basement stairs.

Holman already has a criminal record of 25 arrests, including everything from assault, narcotics, and weapons charges, and has been cuffed and charged with aggravated domestic battery. His bond was set on Tuesday for $1 million.

As for the uncle, he is now reportedly blind in his left eye and can barely see out of his right. He will have to undergo additional surgery in order to save what little vision is left in his right eye.
 
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Holman already has a criminal record of 25 arrests, including everything from assault, narcotics, and weapons charges, and has been cuffed and charged with aggravated domestic battery. His bond was set on Tuesday for $1 million.

He wouldn't have been living in my fµck!ng house! LITTLE fµck!ng FAT ASS BIRD BRAIN WITH HIS SLIM DICK BRAIDS!!

As for the uncle, he is now reportedly blind in his left eye and can barely see out of his right. He will have to undergo additional surgery in order to save what little vision is left in his right eye.

:tremble:

:cry:

I wish I could help the old man!

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What a disgusting and sick individual. SMH!!! I hope they throw the book at him.
 

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Chop off his lips, nose, and put glass in his eye! :no: That is just an evil thing to do!
 

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And he pushed him down the stairs? That's the icing on the over-reaction cake.
 

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I just read about this on Yahoo. How the heck did he get a million dollar bail? That's probably pay back from that lawsuit where he won 100K from the city and the officer got fired. This craziness is ridiculous.
 

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I just read about this on Yahoo. How the heck did he get a million dollar bail? That's probably pay back from that lawsuit where he won 100K from the city and the officer got fired. This craziness is ridiculous.

whats this about? he was in the news before?


and damn at the uncle, thats just straight foul, gouging his eyes out?? i mean really now over a remote? his ass that damn lazy he couldnt just GET UP AND CHANGE THE CHANNEL???
 

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This had nothing to do with the remote control.

Nope.

That kinda hate is DEEP. He doesn't look crazy, so I'm going to assume this is something that's going back some years.

Like seriously old man, was there only one TV in the entire house? Most folks got several of them sh!ts all over the place.

I ain't got nuthin' to say until further info comes out from the convict's side.

Family "secrets".
 

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Illinois man's eyes gouged in fight over TV remote
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Credit: AP
This undated photo provided Jan. 4, 2012 by the Will County Sheriff's Office in Joliet, Ill., shows 32-year-old Exulam Holman. Holman was arrested on a charge of aggravated domestic battery on Dec. 31, 2011, accused of gouging his uncle's eyes out during a fight over a remote control. Officials with the Will County Sheriff's Department say they were called to a Joliet Township home on where a deputy found the 62-year-old victim with blood streaming from his eyes. (AP Photo/Will County Sheriff's Office)

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Posted on January 4, 2012 at 5:59 PM





JOLIET, Ill. (AP) -- The Will County state's attorney's office plans to file formal charges against a man who allegedly gouged out his uncle's eyes in a fight over a remote control.

Spokesman Charles Pelkie says 32-year-old Exulam Holman will be charged formally Wednesday afternoon with aggravated domestic battery and aggravated battery of a person over age 60. Holman wouldn't be eligible for probation if convicted of the latter charge.

A judge on Tuesday ordered him held on $1 million bond.

Authorities say Holman attacked his 62-year-old uncle, Melvin Clifford, on New Year's Eve in a dispute over the TV remote. They say he pushed the older and much smaller man to the floor before straddling him and putting his thumbs into his eyes. He then allegedly pushed Clifford down the basement stairs.
 

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I read the title and thought htis was about another bad assed kid. But after seeing that this is a grown ass man. I know we (the planet) is headed to hell. Just sickness, WTH is wrong with people??? But I'm sorry after arrest number 1, his ass wouldn't have been allowed with in 50 miles of me let alone living in my house.
 

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The mother of a man from unincorporated Joliet who attempted to pop her brother’s eyes out of his head on New Year’s Eve believes that her son, at his core, is a good man.

“My son is not a criminal,” Nannetta Johnson tearfully testified during Exulam I. Holman’s sentencing hearing Thursday in Will County Circuit Court.





“He’s not an angel, either. But I know God has forgiven my son,” Johnson said. “We are all guilty.”

In August a jury convicted Holman, 33, of aggravated battery and aggravated domestic battery. On Thursday he received the maximum sentence: 14 years in prison.





During the trial, 63-year-old Clifford Melvin told jurors Holman attacked him after he returned to their home in the 1100 block of McKay Street from a nearby casino. During a fight over the remote control, Melvin said Holman declared, “There can only be one king,” as he pinned Melvin down and pushed his thumbs into his uncle’s eye sockets.

Four surgeries later, Melvin lost one eye and has blurred vision in the other, according to his victim-impact statement. He wrote that his nephew is a danger to everyone around him.





On Thursday, Holman, a father of two, told Judge Amy Bertani-Tomczak he wouldn’t have committed the crime if he hadn’t been drinking alcohol and taking PCP and cocaine.

“Your honor, I may have done those things, but that’s not who I am,” Holman said.

Assistant State’s Attorney Heather Meyers asked the judge to throw the book at Holman and give him the maximum sentence.

“He has terrorized his family and terrorized any law enforcement officer that comes to the aid of his family,” Meyers said.





Holman’s public defender, Robert Bodach, acknowledged Holman does not get along with police but asked Bertani-Tomczak to consider a lighter sentence coupled with treatment for drug and alcohol addiction.

Both Holman and his mother said Holman’s behavior worsened after he was allegedly beaten by a Joliet police officer in 1999. The city eventually gave Holman $100,000 not to sue.





In 2000, Holman pleaded guilty to aggravated battery after driving his car into a police officer, according to court records.

Four years before the fight with his uncle, Holman stood trial on charges he attacked his brother with a pair of garden shears — a fight he told police started over a bowl of homemade chili.

A jury wound up acquitting Holman after his brother turned out to be an uncooperative witness.

Will County Sheriff’s Deputy Bryan Monahan testified Thursday that he went to Holman’s house in February 2009 after someone there called 911 and hung up.





He found Holman in an upstairs bedroom with a 15-year-old relative, refusing to come out.

Holman threatened to shoot Monahan if he touched the bedroom door, the officer said.

“I asked if he’d shoot a police officer,” Monahan said, at which point Holman started saying, “Shots fired, shots fired” and making siren noises.





Eventually, with support from a tactical team and hostage negotiator, Holman came out of the bedroom, Monahan said.

Holman pleaded guilty in 2010 after threatening a police officer with a hammer.





Holman’s criminal record has covered most of his life and dates back to his childhood, Bertani-Tomczak noted during the sentencing hearing.

In 1996, Holman was sentenced to four years in prison for drug possession and a gun charge. He was paroled two years later.
 

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