By MATTHEW HENDRICKSON
Chicago Sun-Times Wire
Kenneth Cooper | Chicago Police
Bond was denied for a 62-year-old man charged with fatally shooting Gregory Petty early Friday in the Lawndale neighborhood on the Southwest Side.
Kenneth Cooper faces a felony count of first-degree murder in connection with the shooting death of the 34-year-old Petty, Chicago Police said.
Petty, a Humboldt Park resident, was found shot multiple times on the porch of a home at 2:42 a.m. Friday in the 2200 block of South Kildare, police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said. He was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he died less than an hour later.
A witness to the shooting told police that Petty was shot by another man, who barricaded himself inside a home, police said. Following a standoff, Cooper turned himself in to police.
Cooper, who lives on the block where the shooting occurred, also faces a felony count of unlawful use of a weapon/felon in possession of a weapon for the second time, police said.
He was ordered held without bond during a court hearing Sunday, according to Cook County sheriff’s office records. He was scheduled to appear in court again on Monday.