Waukegan resident Jurnee Iverson told the outlet that Kirkwood had wanted a place where the community came together to have “brunch, karaoke, and games,” adding: “He didn’t deserve this and his family didn’t deserve this.”.
The 51-year-old got into an argument with his girlfriend — the restaurant’s manager — while a gender reveal party was going on downstairs at the steakhouse, according to court documents seen by the outlet.
The owner of an Illinois steakhouse was stabbed to death during a gender reveal party — and now his girlfriend’s son is in custody in connection to his killing.
“For something to have happened where that celebration moves to this,” former Waukegan Mayor Sam Cunningham, a close friend of Kirkwood, told ABC7.
The son of the owner’s girlfriend, a restaurant manager, was charged with murder.
