Sept. 23 Arraignment for 21-Year-Old Charged with Murdering Father

The judge in the case of Yashesh S. Desai was reassigned during a hearing Monday at the DuPage County courthouse. Judge Robert Kleeman will now hear the case.

The defense also filed a motion to request a psychiatric evalution, according to DuPage County State's Attorney's Office spokesman Paul Darrah.

Desai was not present for the status hearing. His next court appearance will be his arraignment on Sept. 23.

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 and charged him with first-degree murder. His bond was set at $2 million at a bond hearing last Monday.

At the same hearing, a judge granted the state's motion for an appointment of a clinical psychologist for Desai.

DuPage County State's Attorney Robert 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.

"We have reasonable belief he will raise the defense of insanity or plead guilty and mentally ill," Berlin said.

A clinical psychologist will deem whether Yashesh Desai is fit for trial.

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 p.m. and 5:20 p.m.

 responded to the scene around 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.