Crime, Guns / Firearms

Attorney Arrested For Breaking Into And Shooting Up Ex-Wife's Home

This is truly "When Lawyers Attack! Day" at Above the Law.

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This is truly “When Lawyers Attack! Day” at Above the Law. First we had the horrific account of the husband and wife accused of stabbing a managing partner in his home, and now we have the story of an attorney who allegedly broke into his ex-wife’s house (well, in fairness, it’s described as a “mansion”), fired off a number of shots, and ultimately prompted a police officer to discharge his weapon.

What’s going on here?

At least no one was hurt in this incident. On Friday night, police arrested a man outside the Hawthorn Woods mansion of his ex-wife.

An attorney from North Barrington had his bond raised to $3 million this week following an incident in Hawthorn Woods where he fired several shots inside his ex-wife’s home.

♬Last Friday Night…we took too many shots.♬

Raymond Clutts, 57, of the 100 block of Clubhouse Drive, North Barrington, was charged with three counts of reckless discharge of a firearm, criminal trespass to residence, aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, which are all felonies; and home invasion, a Class X felony, said George Filenko, commander of the Lake County Major Crime Task Force, which was called in because a Hawthorn Woods police officer discharged his weapon when they arrived on the scene.

The incident began Friday night, Nov. 7, just before 7 p.m. with a 911 call reporting several shots being fired in the 0 to 100 block of Barberry Court. When officers arrived, Clutts was exiting the home that belonged to his ex-wife. An officer discharged his weapon and then officers physically took Clutts into custody. A weapon was recovered, but police declined to identify it at this time.

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Raymond E. Clutts represents mostly medical-care providers in Worker’s Comp, personal injury and insurance claim denials. Raymond E. Clutts, P.C. even has a clever little reverse acronym, because all law firms should have these.[1]

Again, thankfully no one was injured in this incident, unlike the terrible events in McLean we reported on this morning. Still, Clutts’s alleged actions were serious enough to warrant raising his bond from $1.5 to $3 million.

It’s unclear what defense Clutts intends to offer.

Perhaps he’ll say he was just careless.

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[1] Let’s take Wilson Sonsini. They could use “We See Great Returns!” Or after a mild NASDAQ hit, “We Saw Great Returns.”

Bond for North Barrington attorney charged in home invasion, shooting set at $3M [Barrington Courier-Review]

Earlier: Husband And Wife Attorney Duo Accused Of Stabbing Law Firm’s Managing Partner

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