1st-degree murder charges filed in biker’s Joliet parking lot death

A Crest Hill woman was arrested on charges of first-degree murder in connection with the death of a Joliet man who was run over in a Plainfield Road parking lot.

Detectives secured a warrant for the arrest of D’Kiva Jones, 27, and took her into custody Wednesday at the Joliet Police Department.

In addition to first-degree murder, Jones was charged with failing to report an accident involving injury or death, aggravated battery, and failing to stop after an accident involving injury or death.

Jones’ bond was set at $2 million. She was transported from the police department to the Will County jail and booked into custody Wednesday evening.

Jones was charged with killing 39-year-old Derek Walsh. Walsh was run over in the parking lot of Supermercado Las Palmas about 3:30 p.m. Monday.

Walsh was taken from the 1115 Plainfield Road parking lot to AMITA Saint Joseph Medical Center where he died less than two hours later.

Prior to running over Walsh, Jones crashed into his parked motorcycle, according to police.

Walsh and Jones then argued, police said, and he walked up to her SUV.

“As the victim approached the vehicle on foot, the vehicle suddenly accelerated forward and turned into the victim,” according to a statement released by the Joliet Police Department. “The victim was struck by the vehicle, which then fled southbound on Plainfield Road without providing aid or assistance.”

Jones apparently ditched the SUV as officers later found it unoccupied, police said.

Detectives identified Jones as the other driver shortly after Walsh died, police said.

Officers tracked her down and brought her in for questioning Monday night.

On his Facebook page, Walsh describes himself as a “Prisoners Rights Activist.” Walsh may have become familiar with prisoners and their rights while serving a 10-year sentence for robbery and theft convictions.

Walsh twice stuck up Mitchell’s Food Mart in January 2001, going into the North Raynor Avenue grocery store with a gun the first time and driving the getaway car on the second occasion.

Prior to his apprehension, Walsh altered the teardrop tattoo under one of his eyes, changing it to look like a spider in an attempt to throw the law off his trail, according to police.

After he pleaded guilty to the robberies and was sent off to prison, Walsh sued the warden of the Will County jail as well as a deputy chief, two sergeants and three deputies assigned to the jail.

Walsh claimed in the lawsuit that he was a member of the racist organization the World Church of the Creator, and that jail staff denied him access to the “White Man’s Bible,” which was written by Ben Klassen, a white supremacist and founder of the World Church of the Creator.

The local leader of the World Church of the Creator, Brian Moudry of Joliet, was arrested in 2012 and charged with setting fire to the home of a Black family living on his street five years earlier.

Moudry, 45, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison. According to Moudry’s plea agreement, he found the fact that a black family had rented a house on his block upsetting and he set the fire in hopes of driving the family out and intimidating the owner of the home.

Moudry was released May 13, 2021, according to the Bureau of Prisons.

Moudry was a disciple of Matt Hale, who is serving a 40-year prison sentence for asking a follower in 2002 to murder U.S. District Judge Joan Lefkow.

Moudry and some of his associates were grilled by the FBI in March 2005 after Lefkow’s mother and husband were murdered. The execution-style slayings turned out to be unrelated to Hale, Moudry or their group.

Before he was questioned in connection with the killings, Moudry organized several white power rallies in and around Joliet.

In his lawsuit, Walsh said he “paid a price for his dedication” to the “advancement of the white race,” namely that he was “harassed and arrested by police during peaceful marches, and fired from work.”