A man who allegedly gunned down five neighbors in a rampage inside a Chicago condo building Saturday had planned out his attack, according to letters found inside his home in which he said he would have “no mercy” for the victims, reports WTTW. A Cook County judge denied bail for 66-year-old Krysztof Marek, who was charged Monday with five counts of first-degree murder. Prosecutors allege Marek ambushed a family as they sat for dinner inside their home before moving to a second unit where he executed another woman. “What I just heard,” Judge John Fitzgerald Lyke Jr. said, “is evil on steroids.”
In denying bail, Lyke said it was evident based that Marek poses a threat to any living witnesses, the community and “any human being he comes in contact with.” The murders may have stemmed from an impending eviction, said prosecutor James Murphy, who said that Marek hadn’t been paying his mortgage nor his building association fees after living in the building for 25 years. After the shootings, Marek went back to his home and placed the gun on a coffee table. When officers arrived on the scene, Marek allegedly told them “I think you’re looking for me. I did it.” Inside his home, investigators found two notes written in Polish. The first read “No Mercy!!! Remember Whatever s–t they did to you You control it yourself not them!!! Enough!! They have to pay for it!!”