Jurors heard a Gurnee man describe the argument that preceded the Christmas Day 2022 beating death of his brother as the man’s murder trial began Tuesday in Lake County Court.
In a video played in court, Kevin Biron-Bomis, then 50, described the fight at his home that ended the life of his brother Brandon of Glencoe on Dec. 25, 2022, after a night of bar-hopping. The defendant is charged with first-degree murder.
“We got into a fight,” he told two Gurnee officers. “It happened so fast. It just happened fast.”
Kevin Biron-Bomis told police that his brother had started agitating people at a bar, which sparked their fight back at the house.
“I asked him why he had such a big ego and had to act like a big man all the time,” he told officers.
In the video, the defendant said his brother swung at him first, and they began fighting, with Kevin Biron-Bomis dislodging his brother’s toupee as they struggled.
“He slipped and went to the floor. I was on top of him,” he said on the video. “I kept punching him in the face.”
The trial’s first witness, a Gurnee firefighter-paramedic, Michael Smith, testified that he arrived at the home in the 1000 block of Boulevard View just before 2 a.m. Brandon Biron-Bomis was not breathing and showed no signs of a heartbeat, Smith said.
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Lake County prosecutors told Judge Patricia Fix, who is presiding over the trial, that they may wrap up their presentation on Wednesday afternoon.