The Cook County State’s Attorney has charged Alan Kettina, 25, with first degree murder after Mark Asber, 22, was shot to death in the parking lot of Niles’ Miraj nightclub at about 1 a.m. Sunday.
Kettina, of Northbrook, was employed as a correctional officer in the Cook County Sheriff’s Department until Sunday when he was de-deputized, according to a Cook County Sheriff’s Press Office spokesperson.
Kettina worked in the Cook County Jail with inmates held in custody since November 2021, the spokesperson said.
“The Sheriff’s Office is cooperating in any way it can with the investigation and would refer all questions to the Niles Police Department,” a statement from the department reads.
Police said their investigation showed the shooting was the result of an escalated dispute between Asber, of Wisner Street in Niles, and Kettina.
According to an earlier statement from the Niles Police Department, law enforcement initially responded to calls of a person shot at about 1 a.m. Sunday.
They found a male with at least one gunshot wound in the parking lot of the nightclub, on the 8800 block of North Milwaukee Ave., and began lifesaving measures, according to a police news release.
Asber was later pronounced dead at a local hospital, police said.
Kettina’s bond hearing is set for Tuesday, according to information from the police department.
