Daniel Olaska
Manager at Schaumburg Regional Airport (06C), Chicago/Schaumburg, Illinois
DuPage County prosecutors moved Thursday to raise or revoke Daniel Olaska’s $3 million bail in an effort to keep him behind bars while he fights charges he fatally stabbed a school teacher last weekend in a Naperville nightclub.
Judge Kathryn Creswell delayed a hearing on the bail request, but agreed to allow a psychiatrist to examine the 27-year-old Olaska in the DuPage County Jail.
Olaska, meanwhile, has switched attorneys, hiring prominent DuPage County attorney Brian Telander to represent him on the first-degree murder and attempted murder charges he faces.
Olaska, a manager at the Schaumburg Regional Airport, is accused of fatally stabbing 24-year-old Shaun Wild early Saturday morning at Frankie’s Blue Room after Wild stepped in to defuse an argument between Olaska and Wild’s friend, William Hayes.
Olaska stabbed Hayes in the chest, seriously wounding the North Central College football player, then tried to leave the jammed dance club, authorities said.
Wild, a former North Central College football star who taught at Spring Brook Elementary School in Naperville, attempted to stop Olaska from fleeing and died after being stabbed once in the chest, authorities said.
A bouncer who disarmed Olaska also was cut during the scuffle, but suffered only minor injuries, officials said.
Prosecutors have filed a request to revoke bail for Olaska or raise his bail to $5 million. A hearing on the issue was set for Feb. 17.
Telander, who replaces former defense attorney Earl Grinbarg, said he would oppose efforts to change Olaska’s bail, noting Olaska has never been arrested or even been in trouble before being charged with the stabbings.
“This is a situation he never thought he’d find himself in,” Telander said after a short hearing Thursday.
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