GALESBURG, Ill. — A man charged with killing eight people last year in Illinois and Missouri has decided against representing himself in a suspected jailhouse attack.
Nicholas Sheley told Knox County Judge Dwayne Morrison in Galesburg on Friday that he wants counsel in the case. Sheley is charged with aggravated assault on suspicion of hitting a corrections officer in April.
The 29-year-old Sheley is being held in Knox County Jail on first-degree murder charges in the June 2008 death of a Galesburg man.
Sheley had earlier asked to represent himself in that case before changing his mind.
Sheley is also charged with murder in five other deaths last June in Illinois and the killings of two people that month in Missouri.