Geno Paget / Photo from Chicago Police
Geno Paget has been charged with murder for allegedly fatally shooting Paul Pyron during a carjacking earlier this year in the Ashburn neighborhood.
Paget, 31, was also charged with armed robbery and aggravated vehicular hijacking, police said.
Pyron, 21, was in a black Ford Expedition in the 2300 block of West 80th Street when Paget and another person walked up about 10:25 p.m. May 27, authorities said.
Paget or his acquaintance allegedly shot Pyron in the chest and then drove off in the SUV, authorities said.
Pyron, of the 1400 block of West 77th Street, died at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Pyron was the youngest of three siblings, but was always mature for his age, said longtime friend Kevin Harvey.
“[Pyron] never asked me for anything, even though I was so close to him,” Harvey said. “Him having that mindset that ‘I’m not gonna depend on anyone else to succeed,’ that independent factor he had about him, whatever I gotta do to survive, that was great about him.”
Paget, of the 5700 block of South Damen Avenue, is scheduled to appear in bond court Thursday.
— Sun-Times Media Wire