$1M bond for Jeremy Givens, charged with fatally stabbing Eugene Bailey on Christmas Eve in Roseland

Jeff Mayes — Mon, 06 Jun 2016 11:59:58 -0500

Jeremy Givens | Chicago Police

Bond was set at $1 million Sunday for a man charged with the fatal stabbing of Eugene Dan Bailey Jr. on Christmas Eve last year in Roseland on the Far South Side.

Jeremy Givens, 26, got into an argument with 42-year-old Bailey about 5:30 p.m. on Dec. 24, 2015, in the 300 block of West 111th Place and stabbed him in the chest, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Bailey, of the 1200 block of West 115th Street, was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he died at 7:51 p.m. that night, authorities said.

Eugene Dan Bailey Jr. | photo provided

Givens, of the 200 block of West 111th Place, appeared in bond court Sunday. A judge ordered him held on a $1 million and he was due back in court Monday, according to the Cook County sheriff’s office.

--Chicago Sun-Times Wire

Jeremy Givens | Homicide Watch Chicago

$1M bond for Jeremy Givens, charged with fatally stabbing Eugene Bailey on Christmas Eve in Roseland