Bernadette Bernie Quasie, 48, was shot and killed at her home on Langsford Lane (Plainfield mailing address) on December 20, 2023. Officers responding for a welfare check found her unresponsive with gunshot wounds in her bedroom; the Will County Coroner pronounced her dead at 6 p.m. that day. The gun believed used in the shooting was recovered and the coroner’s office said final cause and manner were pending autopsy and toxicology.

Police identified 21-year-old son Justen Holman as the person who called them from an OfficeMax parking lot and said he had killed someone at the residence. Investigators say the shooting followed an argument about a life insurance policy parents had taken out for Holman, valued at $1–2 million, and about his mother’s demand that he move out by January 19, 2024. Holman told police he did not remember how many times he had shot his mother, had blood on his shoes, and had contemplated suicide or turning himself in. He was arrested and charged with three counts of first-degree murder and was being held at the Will County Jail with a court hearing set for January 5, 2024.

Did anyone who knew Bernadette or the family notice escalating tensions over the policy or the planned move-out?