6-Apr-18 – No longer just a “person of interest,” a suspect in the stabbing death of a software executive in River North two weeks ago has been arrested.

Gino Basset (left), age 56, has been charged with the first-degree murder of Miguel “Mike” Beedle. Basset is also charged with two counts of assault with a deadly weapon for threatening two women as he fled. Basset lives in the 6100 block of South Ingleside Avenue, about seven miles south of the Loop. He was arrested on Wednesday morning and will be in bond court on Friday morning.

On March 23 at about 2:27 a.m., Beedle was apparently cutting through an alley in the 400 block of North State Street when he was stabbed in the neck. The 55-year-old made it the corner of State & Hubbard, where he collapsed.

Basset, meanwhile, ran to the CTA Red Line station two blocks north at State & Grand. On the stairs down to the station, according to police, he displayed a knife and threatened to stab two women, ages 21 and 26, before getting away.

Beedle lived in Park Ridge, northwest of Chicago. He had six children, ages 18 months to 19 years, and was CEO of Enterprise Scrum, a software company located in Lake County.