Man stands trial for shooting at ‘Batman’ car near McHenry

A McHenry man was running errands and “minding his own business” when a Waukegan man threw a bottle at his vehicle and, moments later, shot at him with a gun, McHenry County Assistant State’s Attorney Ashley Romito said at the man’s bench trial Tuesday.

Romito told Judge Mark Gerhardt in opening statements at the trial of Juan Colon, 29, that he was a passenger in a Lincoln SUV driving along River Road on the afternoon of April 24, 2022, when the driver of the SUV, Joseph Crisara II, 37, of Island Lake, passed the McHenry man’s Ford decorated with Batman decals. As the SUV passed a water bottle was thrown from the SUV at the man’s Ford.