Aug. 06--A Gurnee man accused of shooting and wounding a 21-year-old man in the Albany Park neighborhood on Chicago's Northwest Side is being held on $1 million bond in Cook County Jail following a bond hearing Wednesday.
Phakthra Savath, 19, was charged with one felony count of aggravated battery with a discharge of a firearm, according to a statement from the Chicago Police Department.
The 21-year-old man was standing outside in the 4400 block of North Kedzie Avenue when four or five men walked up to him yelling gang slogans around 1:10 a.m. July 20, police said at the time.
Savath was identified as the person who fired gunshots at the man, who was struck in the right thigh and left ankle, according to the statement.
The 21-year-old was taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, where his condition stabilized, police said at the time.
Savath, of the 100 block of Wellington Circle in Gurnee, appeared in Cook County bond court Wednesday.
According to Lake County Circuit Court records, Savath pleaded guilty to misdemeanor ordinance violation charges of battery in June 2010, and his probation was terminated successfully in September of that same year.
News-Sun reporter Jim Newton contributed.
