(WBBM NEWSRADIO) — A suspect has been arrested and charged in a stabbing death that stemmed from a road-rage incident in River North, police said Friday.
Alan Perez, 25, faces a charge of first-degree murder in the killing of 36-year-old Jeremy Walker. Walker was stabbed in the neck about 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the first block of West Ohio Street. An apparent traffic dispute escalated when Walker and his assailant got out of their cars, witnesses said.
The other driver stabbed Walker in the neck, and he drove to police on Michigan Avenue. Walker was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where he died of his injury.
“This was a horrible, senseless act of violence that will not be tolerated in the city of Chicago,” State’s Attorney Kimberly Foxx said at a news conference with Chicago police officials.
Chicago Police Supt. David Brown said police located the vehicle the suspect used at the time of the attack and talked with people who had been passengers. Brown said Perez turned himself in earlier this week.
Perez was expected to appear in bond court Saturday. No further information was available.
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