According to police, the five men lured Revels to Williams' house on Perry Street in South Beloit on June 30, took him into the basement and spent two hours beating him with a golf club, claw hammer and the butt of a gun. After the beating in the basement, Revels was led upstairs with a sheet over his head and driven to a wooded area behind the American Legion where the beating continued. After Revels was thrown off a 40-foot ledge, the assailants fled the scene. Revels was able to make his way to a nearby house and call for help. He was taken to Beloit Memorial Hospital and continues to recover from his injuries.
Revels is now in protective custody.
According to a court file, the men beat Revals because they believed he provided police with information leading to an earlier arrest of Justin Williams. Vinson, mother of the Williams brothers, has been charged with unlawful communication with a witness of subornation of perjury after she allegedly offered to pay Revels to sign a statement that would clear her sons of the crime. According to police, Vinson was in the home at the time of the beating. The state's attorney's office intends to try the youth as an adult.