MUGSHOT photos for John Granat (left) and Christopher Wyma (right)
BRIDGEVIEW, IL -- A young man charged with brutally murdering his parents five years ago will stand trial along with a high school pal who allegedly helped him.
Attorneys met Monday in Cook County Judge Neil Linehan’s Bridgeview courtroom to go over pretrial motions before jury selection begins on Jan. 9. Prosecutor Donna Norton said both defendants would have separate juries.
John Granat was 17 and a senior at Stagg High School when his parents, John and Maria Granat, were found Sept. 11, 2011, bludgeoned and stabbed in the bedroom of their upscale home in unincorporated Palos Park.
Fellow Stagg senior Christopher Wyma, and two other teens were arrested a month later, in October 2011. Prosecutors said that Granat plotted with Wyma and 19-year-old Ehab Qasem, of Hickory Hills over Skype to beat his parents to death with baseball bats as they slept in their beds. Maria had also been stabbed more than 20 times, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner.
A fourth youth from Chicago Ridge — Mohammad Salahat, then a 16-year-old junior at Oak Lawn Community High School — waited outside in the car while the murders went down in the Granat home. Salahat pleaded guilty in March and was sentenced to 35 years in the Illinois Department of Corrections.
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