Pierre J. French
An Elgin woman who was stabbed to death Saturday had sought an order of protection against the estranged husband accused of killing her.
Pierre J. French, 36, is facing two counts of first-degree murder in connection with the deadly stabbing of DreAnna Booker.
Authorities say French stabbed Booker, 33, of Elgin, multiple times with a knife in the 700 block of Bluff City Boulevard.
When Elgin police officers responded to the scene at 1 a.m. on Saturday, they found Booker dead with multiple stab wounds to her body.
French was taken into custody shortly after. He is being held in the Kane County jail pending a scheduled court appearance on Dec. 18.
Police have not released additional information.
But in her order ruling that French be detained in jail until his next court date, Kane County Judge Sandra Parga wrote that French had told Elgin emergency dispatchers that he “snapped” and stabbed Booker.
Police found him with a butcher knife that had a red substance on it, according to Parga’s order. The order also stated that French had rammed a man’s car repeatedly, and that French had a knife on the passenger seat of his car.
Meanwhile, Kane County court records show that Booker had filed for a divorce from French in May.
Booker also sought and received an emergency order of protection in July. In the application for the order, she wrote that French “has been very angry about the petitioner and the petitioner’s male friend being close.”
She wrote that French had, among other things, yelled at her and threatened to beat up her friend.
Booker also alleged that French made a copy of the key to the house where she lived in the 700 block of Bluff City Boulevard and that she called police four times in one week because French was angry, aggressive and wanted to argue, according to the application.
The emergency order was granted and was in effect for about two weeks. But then Booker withdrew her request for a longer-lasting plenary order in August.
Court records indicate Booker withdrew the request because she and French had signed a judge-approved agreement, in their divorce case, to treat each other with respect and to not enter each others’ residences without permission.
Court records show that Booker and French were married in 2011. They had six children together, ranging in age from 1 to 14.
According to the divorce petition filed by Booker, the couple separated in 2015. She wrote that French worked as a school bus driver and was living on Clifford Court in Elgin.