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Suspect Pleads Not Guilty To Stabbing Naperville Teacher To Death

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Daniel J. Olaska (Naperville Police Dept.)

Daniel J. Olaska (Naperville Police Dept.)

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WHEATON, Ill. (CBS) — A Naperville man has pleaded not guilty to the stabbing death of a school teacher inside a nightclub last month.

As WBBM Newsradio’s Lisa Fielding reports, Daniel Olaska, 27, stands charged in the Feb. 4 murder of teacher Shaun Wild, 24, at Frankie’s Blue Room, at 14 W. Chicago Ave. in Naperville.

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Olaska entered his plea at an arraignment in DuPage County Court on Monday.

Prosecutors say Olaska stabbed another man, William Hayes III, in the chest with a 5-inch folding knife, after Hayes allegedly teased him about drinking beer from a wineglass.

Wild was stabbed in the heart when he tried to intervene.

Olaska also allegedly stabbed a third man, bouncer Rafael Castenada.

Wild was in his first year as a second grade teacher at Spring Brook Elementary School in Naperville.

Olaska has been indicted on 14 counts, including seven counts of first-degree murder.

His attorneys have made a motion to get his bond reduced, but prosecutors are fighting the effort.

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  • Just Axin

    Can’t we for once have some criminal a-hole plead guilty and save the system alot of time and $?

    • German Leprechaun

      No! ABSOLUTELY NOT!!

    • Just tellin

      Because if he wasn’t intending on killing anyone and it was a drunken mishap that got out of hand and ended up with tragic results (which certainly happened), it wasn’t 1st degree murder…especially when the weapon used was not a gun. It is terrible for a drunken mishap to end in a life and injuries, but there is no sense in someone pleading guilty to a charge they are not guilty of.

  • zatso

    Wake up and smell the flowers, it’s SPRING!

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  • Just tellin

    Because if he wasn’t intending on killing anyone and it was a drunken mishap that got out of hand and ended up with tragic results (which certainly happened), it wasn’t 1st degree murder…especially when the weapon used was not a gun. It is terrible for a drunken mishap to end in a life and injuries, but there is no sense in someone pleading guilty to a charge they are not guilty of.

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