Man charged with shooting at Elmhurst hotel

A man has been charged with shooting a handgun at an Elmhurst hotel early Friday morning, with the bullet going through a third-story window and into an occupied room.

Kyle V. Lochman, age 21, of the 400 block of Cliff Court in Lisle, has been charged with aggravated discharge of a firearm, reckless conduct and aggravated unlawful use of a weapon.

He appeared in first-appearance court Saturday in DuPage County, where a judge granted him pretrial release. He will have to wear an alcohol-monitoring device.

Nobody was injured.

According to an Elmhurst Police news release, Elmhurst police were called around 2:45 a.m. to the Courtyard by Marriott hotel at 370 N. Route 83 for a report of gunshots outside the building. Several people reported hearing shots coming from the Route 83 side of the building.

A hotel guest then came to the lobby and told officers a bullet had gone through the window of their room, hitting the headboard of a bed. Another bullet hit an exterior concrete wall.

Elmhurst police broadcast a bulletin about the shooting, including a vehicle description recorded on a license-plate-reading camera system.

At 4:43 a.m., a Glendale Heights resident called 911 to report a suspicious vehicle parked on James Court near North Avenue.

Glendale Heights police found two people asleep in a Lexus sedan, including Lochman, with a 9mm handgun and shell casings visible inside.

Glendale Heights alerted Elmhurst, and it was determined a license-plate reading camera recorded the vehicle near the hotel at the time of the shooting.

According to court records, Lochman was traveling back from a casino in Waukegan with two other men, and he shot a 9mm Glock handgun several times out of a passenger window. The driver of the car said that it was Lochman’s vehicle, but Lochman and the third man were too drunk to drive.