Arraignment Friday for 21-Year-Old Charged With Murdering Father

Yashesh Desai, the 21-year-old police say murdered his father Aug. 14 by beating him in the head with a weed trimmer, will appear in court Friday for his arraignment.

An arraignment is the formal reading of charges in the presence of the defendant, who then pleads guilty or not guilty to those charges.

DuPage County State's Attorney Robert Berlin said he had "reasonable belief" Desai would raise the defense of insanity or plead guilty and mentally ill to first-degree murder.

Berlin said Desai talked about Godzilla, X and Y chromosomes and "killing the retards" in statements to police. Those statements led authorities to file a motion for an appointment of a clinical psychologist.

During an Aug. 22 status hearing, that motion was filed and the judge in the case of was reassigned to Judge Robert Kleeman.

Police say Desai, 21, of 3 Plover Court, murdered his father early Aug. 14 by beating him in the head with a weed trimmer.

Woodridge police arrested Yashesh Desai at the scene of the incident. His bond was set at $2 million.

Reports have said Desai and his father argued about money before the alleged killing. Patch has found that the family's home was in foreclosure, but no other financial issues were apparent in court records.

Just hours before police found Sanjiv Desai dead, a Facebook user registered as Yashesh Sanjiv Desai published dozens of comments on his page, including a list of weapons he said he needed and another post in which he said he'd "lost faith in humanity."

He posted close to 40 statuses in as many minutes between around 4:40 and 5:20 p.m.

 responded to the scene about 3:07 a.m. Aug. 14 after a person had called 911 stating that his brother had just killed their father, according to a release from the DuPage County State's Attorney's Office.

Police found Sanjiv J. Desai lying on a futon in the computer room of his house, the release said.

"Desai was suffering from massive head wounds. He was taken to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead as a result of the injuries he sustained," the release said.

Sanjiv Desai was allegedly sleeping on a futon in the computer room of his home when Yashesh Desai struck him multiple times in the head with a weed trimmer, the release said. That resulted in severe trauma to Sanjiv Desai’s head.

According to Facebook, Yashesh Desai graduated from and studied chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana.