A judge denied bail for a Hinsdale, Illinois, businessman accused of fatally shooting a former UMaine basketball player he believed was a romantic rival in northwest suburban Bloomingdale, Illinois.
Jeffrey Keller appeared before Judge George Bakalis clad in an orange jumpsuit with his hands shackled. Keller believed Nate J. Fox was having an affair with the same woman Keller was “emotionally” involved with so he “stalked” Fox and fatally shot him, prosecutors said in court.
Keller, 51, of the 5500 block of South Park Avenue, is charged with murder.
Officials said Fox had worked with the woman at an insurance agency but was not involved with the woman who “didn’t even like him.”
Keller is the CEO of the Internet company 8to18 Inc. and owns a home valued at more than $1 million, officials said in court. His next court date is Jan. 21.
Fox was shot to death in the 200 block of Tamarack Lane in Bloomingdale while he was on his way home from work at 9:37 p.m. on Dec. 22, according to a police news release. Fox, 37, was taken to Adventist GlenOaks Hospital in Glendale Heights, where he later was pronounced dead.
In trying to find a motive for the shooting, police released a photo of a car similar to a maroon 2013 Jaguar XJ that Fox was driving before he was shot.
Fox, whose given name was Nathaniel, was a graduate of Plainfield High School, according to an obituary posted on the Carlson Holmquist-Sayles Funeral Home website.
The 6-foot-9 Fox received a basketball scholarship to Boston College but later transferred to the University of Maine, where he also played, according to the obituary. After graduating college, he played professionally throughout Europe from 2000 to 2012 and won a Belgian Cup title with the Okapi Aalstar club.
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