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Police: Man Gouged Out Uncle’s Eyes During Fight Over TV Remote

January 4, 2012 at 12:59 pm by Jaded

Joliet Township, IL — A man police are calling a career criminal is accused of gouging his uncle’s eyeballs out as the two men fought over a remote control New Year’s Eve.

Police responded to the home the alleged eyeball gouger shares with his uncle at about 10:00 Saturday evening. The unidentified 62-year-old victim was found at the bottom of the basement stairs with his hands stretched out in front of him, saying, “Please help. I cannot see.”

According to police, the victim had “blood streaming from both eyeballs, covering his face below his eyes. Both of his eyeballs were swollen, dislocated and were protruding approximately a quarter-inch from the eye sockets.”

The man told police he and his nephew, 32-year-old Exulam Holman, had been arguing over the remote right before shit got bloody.

In a fit of anger, Holman reportedly threw the remote to the ground, breaking it, and shoved the older man to the floor. He then straddled the victim, inserted his thumbs into the man’s eyes and attempted to pry them from their sockets. (Police say Holman is about 5′ 7″ and tips the scales at about 280. The victim is a few inches shorter and about 140 pounds lighter).

Still pissed, Holman then pushed the victim down the basement stairs. Police say that despite being blinded and in “excruciating” pain, the man still managed to call 911. It has been reported that the man is now blind in his left eye and will require additional surgery for the limited vision in his right.

Holman was found in a locked bedroom and was arrested on a charge of aggravated domestic battery. Bond has been set at $1 million.

Police say Holman has been arrested 25 times since 1999 for charges that include aggravated assault, aggravated battery, domestic battery, violating orders of protection, resisting arrest and numerous driving violations after previous convictions on weapons and narcotics charges.

How ’bout we just toss the key this time, eh? Even better, toss him in a cell with this guy.

Tags: domestic battery, Exulam Holman, Illinois

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Anonymous

I’m all for locking him away with the other eyeball gouger, throwing the key away, and letting them duke it out in a bloody deathmatch.
LeaveMeBe

The stories over the past 2 days have given me eyeball aches and made them all watery. Ugh!
http://www.facebook.com/people/Shannon-Bennett/1803988499 Shannon Bennett

If this guy can get this mad over a remote control, I’d hate to see what he’s capable of when a big deal happens!
Anonymous

Uncle Eyeballs…that’s a good name for a rock band.
http://profiles.google.com/coldlogic HAL 9000

Sucks reading about a guy like this who’s been arrested twenty some-odd times for real shit like assault, battery, hurting other people. And they just keep letting him out. Meanwhile, we’ve got thousands and thousands serving years at a time for smoking a joint. Our Justice system is a joke.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=736546181 Michael Heldman

This is why we need to bring back gladiator fights to the death. The prison system would make a nice profit, tax payers wouldn’t have to foot the bill very long for these individuals, and the nation gets some much needed entertainment. Lifers and those that can’t be rehabilitated should be given the option to duel other prisoners to the death in exchange for prison luxuries, like an extra bar of soap or soup that is actually warm.
Coyote

I notice they both have the under the eye tear tattoo…, classy.
http://www.dreamindemon.com Count Rackula

Jaded! No! Toss him in a cell with Angelo Mendoza! Then maybe the prick can feel what it’s like to have his eyes EATEN out instead of gouged!

http://www.dreamindemon.com/2011/02/25/man-who-ate-sons-eyeball-found-not-guilty-by-reason-of-insanity/
http://tothechest.com Pete Puma

Seems as though we have another skull-fucking candidate to consider.
Anonymous

pay for view? Or stadium ?
Gee

I don’t know why this guy just didn’t go to Radio shack and get an Atenna
Anonymous

This would have not effected a mother, they have a second set of eyes in the back of their head, just for a instance like this.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XKMAEMPVJ5T2Y35HKYTNG7I6SY Cedric

” Even better, toss him in a cell with this guy.”

Now that could get interesting … good idea … 2 assholes …1 remote.
CT

Imagine what would have happened if it were a steak?

There is no shit on tv these days that one needs to disfigure another person over. How does ones mind work to make someone want to gouge out someone’s eyes? Damn.
LeaveMeBe

Agreed. But there is plenty on TV that I would gouge my own eyes out over if I were forced to watch it.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XKMAEMPVJ5T2Y35HKYTNG7I6SY Cedric

” How does ones mind work to make someone want to gouge out someone’s eyes?”

Most likely like this :

“Give me the damn remote nephew,my shows on.”
“No,fuck you uncle – I’m watching a porn tape right now.”
“You know I don’t want that shit in my house boy,now give me my fucking remote.”
“Go fuck yourself,I’m trying to fap here Boss.”
“If you don’t hand me my shit right this minute Exulam – nephew,or no nephew you can get yo shit,and you can get tha fuck up out my crib.”
Smash (remote hits the floor hard).”I can’t fap to CNN.Fuck yo eyes uncle,fuck yo eyes.”
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XKMAEMPVJ5T2Y35HKYTNG7I6SY Cedric

Bigger than the remote ? Whats bigger than the remote ???
CT

No shit.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XKMAEMPVJ5T2Y35HKYTNG7I6SY Cedric

” we’ve got thousands and thousands serving years at a time for smoking a joint. ”
HAL you are exaggerating … just a tad bit here.
Athena

I’ve got to say, as much as I hate Three Strikes laws, this is precisely the kind of dangerous shitwad they were designed to put away. Instead, they’re being used to lock up non-violent drug offenders.

It’s disgusting.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XKMAEMPVJ5T2Y35HKYTNG7I6SY Cedric

“warm soup” ??? We can’t give these butt munchers warm soup … we do that and next they will want meat in they warm soup … its the domino effect Michael – the domino effect.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XKMAEMPVJ5T2Y35HKYTNG7I6SY Cedric

Pay per view – I don’t like to leave home much.
http://www.dreamindemon.com Count Rackula

“Fuck yo eyes uncle,fuck yo eyes.”

LMAO! The whole thing was awesome but that part was the best I think.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XKMAEMPVJ5T2Y35HKYTNG7I6SY Cedric

Thank you.
jake8jazz

Maybe they are both in the same gang and decided this week should go for the eyes. Maybe next week they’ll go for the ears!
Anonymous

What is the deal with older relatives allowing these psychos to live with them? I can’t see helping your nephew back on his feet after fucking up once, but 25 times? Sometimes you just have to let people go to fuck up their shit by themselves and not drag you down.
jake8jazz

That was awesome! “Cedric’s Crime Playhouse Theatre”
Athena

Haven’t you never seen Death Race? We employ this plan of yours, and it’s only a matter of time before my beloved UFC fighters are being incarcerated on trumped up charges so they can fight in these for-profit battles.

I won’t have it.
Anonymous

Ya like ” The View “
Anonymous

I knew it was a women that made that remark, a man and his remote are sacred.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=736546181 Michael Heldman

Hey, you can’t just mention the words “prick” & “eaten out” around here in the same sentence without some kind of harASSment. I just won’t stand for it.
http://www.dreamindemon.com Count Rackula

I did it on purpose to summon you! My day wouldn’t be complete without a stranger (you) cupping my boob from behind.

I see my methods have worked.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=736546181 Michael Heldman

Some of them are already familiar with the prison system. Besides, they might relish the chance to go at with no rules. The “Iceman” might change his name to the “Icepick”, the “Axe-murderer” can become….well he can keep his name but some of the others are due an upgrade.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=736546181 Michael Heldman

Absolutely! And seeing as I’m back here anyway cupping your boob…might as well keep busy…
Anonymous

Lmao that was good Cedric Wan Kenobi.
Anonymous

I agree and I was just going to ask that very question . They are always violent as well. No surprise he did that to his uncle. I hope the prison system keeps him this time.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Rebecca-Garcia/100000746322144 Rebecca Garcia

My husband is that way with his mustache. No one, not even me, may touch his mustache.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Rebecca-Garcia/100000746322144 Rebecca Garcia

Yea but that would make sex a little distracting for the man of the house hahaha
Anonymous

Never thought of that, shit, she will see my crazy face then.
http://www.dreamindemon.com Jaded

Or absolutely anything on the Lifetime Movie Network.
http://www.dreamindemon.com Jaded

“Fuck yo eyes” is now my official phrase of the week. Thanks, Ced.
Anonymous

I love this idea. Let’s do it.
Anonymous

Why can’t we have both?
Anonymous

yup. We’re gonna be saying that shit at work like MAD.
Anonymous

you’d think they’d draw the line about the FIFTEENTH time, you know?
Anonymous

Ok, um. haha. I admit to being reaaaaaaallly bored, and poking myself in the eye for funsies… but there’s a point where it gets all yucky…. how do you get past that point, on yourself or someone else?!
EveryVillainIsLemons

They should put his ass UNDER the jail.
Anonymous

LOL I don’t know about the rest of the U.S., but where I live,dudes with those tattoos are what I call “institutionalized”.Whether they be white,black or latino, those tattoos universally say “I have spent more time in jail than out of jail.”
And the fact that he BLINDED the poor man,his own kin,makes him a douchebag too!
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Anonymous

For some reason, my woman likes to touch my mustache with her inner thighs.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Shannon-Bennett/1803988499 Shannon Bennett

I can’t believe I let myself forget that lol!
http://truecrimereport.com iLLusionS

Okay all you mentals….leave the Orbs alone!!! Yuck!!!
This is a really sweet nephew..he was probably living there and mooching off of his older uncle as it was.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=736546181 Michael Heldman

Yes, let’s do “it”
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XKMAEMPVJ5T2Y35HKYTNG7I6SY Cedric

Hmm … bet I know what you do when you get really pissed at him …
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XKMAEMPVJ5T2Y35HKYTNG7I6SY Cedric

Great idea.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XKMAEMPVJ5T2Y35HKYTNG7I6SY Cedric

“Icepick” … I believe that names already taken by the guy in Florida who pulled the ice pick out of his car and got road rage stabby with it.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XKMAEMPVJ5T2Y35HKYTNG7I6SY Cedric

Nothing classy about those tats … nothing says “I will murder you,or fuck you up yo ass” like a teardrop tat under the eye.Calling that tat classy is like calling those BIG ASS LIPS people are getting tatted on their necks sexy – nothing sexy about broadcasting to everyone who still has eyes in their head that you are a simpleton.
Anonymous

Maybe the tears represent the HORRIBLE PAIN OF HAVING YOUR EYEBALLS FUCKED WITH.
Anonymous

Poor bastard!
LeaveMeBe

I’ll break my damn fingers trying to get the highlighted part of the cable guide off of the OWN Network.
LeaveMeBe

I called and checked with Radio Shack and they said they were all out of antennas. They said some Gee bought them all up to stockpile for use when stupid attacks. Would you know anything about this?
Anonymous

HAL 9000 smoking some good stuff there !
http://profiles.google.com/mattgordonmd matt gordon

The gouging of eyes always hits me as a couple of notches higher on the WTF Scale. (0-0)
http://profiles.google.com/mattgordonmd matt gordon

The gouging of eyes always hits me as a couple of notches higher on the WTF Scale. (0-0)
Gee

*Bats eyelashes, I will never tell….
Canuck Gramz

Good point. When I was staying at my mom’s place to help her through recovery from eye surgery she watched religious programming on tv 24 hours a day. Seeing as she lived in a bachelor apartment and that ( insert cuss word here) tv was five feet from my head each night as I tried to sleep, I listened to a lot of religious garbage. I am a Christian and that stuff nearly made me crazy. I would try to distract myself with reading an X files book, which resulted in some horrifying ( but a bit cool) dreams where I was teamed up with Mulder and Scully, fleeing Benny Hinn and a gang of black suited goons.
Anonymous

Did someone try to gouge your mom’s eyes out?
Anonymous

Throw away the key? Why not just one bullet through his skull? Seriously, why even keep people like this alive?
http://www.dreamindemon.com Morbid

“ Fuck yo eyes uncle,fuck yo eyes”
Wait… what the hell is happening around here? I not only Liked a Cedric post, but Cedric even made me laugh? Maybe the Mayans are right… the world is ending.
Anonymous

Can’t believe I missed this one.

WHY ARE YOU SO FUCKING ANGRY!?
What? Cause mommy was a whore? Cause “daddy” abandoned you? Cause you don’t know who DADDY is?

GET THE FUCK OVER IT! If you can’t, get yourself some therapy.

Make your own fucking damned family & create a family that works like you want WITHOUT THE ANGER, AND ABUSE YOU SEEM TO DOLE OUT LIKE THE GOVERNMENT SEEMS TO DOLE OUT WELFARE FOR ASSHOLES THAT SELL DRUGS & MAKE A LOT OF FUCKING MONEY THAT WAY.

I didn’t like the way my mom ran her household. I got the fuck out of her house, made my own family & now we are all great, stress free & happy. So did my husband. No one is angry, no one gets hurt & best of all I act like I’da wanted my mom to act when I was a kid.

And if you don’t fucking know how to use your words, READ & GO TO SCHOOL & LEARN TO USE YOUR WORDS INSTEAD OF YOUR FISTS, ASSHOLE!

Oh & fire your stylist. You look like the most ugly fattest 2nd grade little girl in the world. I wish you had a thousand ponytails with millions of barrets of different colors & bright red lipstick & then you’d get sent to a Max Security prison & released in Gen Pop.
Anonymous

ACE!
Anonymous

Pay PER view so I don’t have to watch it necessarily. I’m not into watching sports or fights.

I’ll take Criminal Minds, Rookie Blue or The Game (BET) & my Law & ORder SVU & not watch more tv thank you. Unless it’s the cooking channel.
Anonymous

With the bullying bullcrap of nowadays, I want my kids trained like those guys to kick ass!
Anonymous

*Presses SARCASM BUTTON for @cerealmom:disqus *
Anonymous

I’m all up for the “Army Wives” show.

I love that Catherine Bell. I’d f*ck her so damned bad if I had a dick!
http://www.dreamindemon.com/forums/ Dakota Valkyrie

Exulam Holman, 33, was convicted of aggravated battery and aggravated domestic battery and now faces up to 14 years in prison when he’s sentenced Oct. 11.

Holman’s first trial in July ended in a mistrial because a juror knew one of the potential witnesses.

During those proceedings 63-year-old Clifford Melvin told jurors the attack began after he returned to their home in the 1100 block of McKay Street from a nearby casino. Melvin said Holman declared, “there can only be one king,” as he pinned Melvin down and pushed his thumbs into his uncle’s eye sockets.

But Holman’s attorney, Robert Bodach, told jurors Melvin attacked Holman first that night, punching him and threatening him with a chair. He said Holman had to stop the fight.

Four years before the fight with his uncle, Holman stood trial on charges he attacked his brother with a pair of garden shears — a fight he told police started over a bowl of homemade chili.

A jury wound up acquitting Exulam Holman after his brother turned out to be an uncooperative witness, but it’s one of 25 arrests he’s had since 1999.
[...]

He’s faced several misdemeanor battery charges, and he prompted his now ex-wife to seek orders of protection multiple times. She’s accused him in court papers of screaming, “I’m a king,” before making drunken threats against her, and she said he once told her she’d wind up dead in the dirt beside her house if she sought child support.

Holman also received a $100,000 settlement, though, after a Joliet police officer beat him while breaking up a dice game in the Forest Park neighborhood in 1999. The officer was fired.

http://heraldnews.suntimes.com/news/14372362-418/man-convicted-of-trying-to-gouge-uncles-eyes-out-over-remote.html