A 33-year-old Far South Side man has been charged with the murder of a man who was impaled on a metal picket fence after being punched in the face and falling at a party earlier this month.
Police said 48-year-old Edward James Scott was harassing guests at a party in the 9100 block of South Greenwood Avenue about 8 p.m. on Sunday, June 16, when Willie Hubbard punched him in the face.
The blow caused Scott to lose his balance, resulting in his head becoming impaled by a wrought iron fence near the eye, police said.
Scott was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he died about 9 p.m. that night.
An autopsy determined he died from craniocerebral injuries caused by impalement on a fence post following an assault, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office. The death was ruled a homicide.
After turning himself in to police, Hubbard, of the 1000 block of East 111th Street, was arrested Wednesday and charged with murder with a strong probability of death/injury, police said. He was expected to appear in bond court Thursday.