Sept. 27--A 34-year-old man is accused of fatally shooting an acquaintance to death during a fight Saturday afternoon in the Bronzeville neighborhood, police said.
Marvin Lee, 34, was charged with murder and was ordered held without bail by Judge James Brown at the Leighton Criminal Court Building Sunday afternoon.
About noon Saturday 25-year-old Courtney T. Caldwell was shot three times in the 700 block of East 47th Street, which is also Lee's address, police said.
Caldwell, of the 7100 block of South Shore Drive, was taken to John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County where he was pronounced dead, authorities said.
In court Sunday, a Cook County assistant state's attorney said Lee shot Caldwell after Caldwell banged in his door multiple times during a fight and and argument that spilled out into a hallway of Lee's home. After shooting him three times in the hallway, Caldwell tried to run away but Lee fired a fourth time in the back, said the prosecutor. The incident was captured on surveillance video.
Witnesses and Lee himself called 9-1-1 as Caldwell lay bleeding, according to the prosecutor who said Lee made an admission about the shooting.
At the time of the attack, authorities said the shooter called police after the incident and said he had shot someone who was trying to break in to his residence.
But after investigating, police said instead that the gunman knew the man he had shot, and the two had been fighting.
The prosecutor said Lee has no criminal background.
Lee's defense attorney said he is a life-long resident of Chicago, attended the University of Phoenix, and worked for AT T.
