Lamar Chambers | Chicago Police
A Far South Side man was charged with shooting 51-year-old Bruce E. Smith to death last week in the Back of the Yards neighborhood.Lamar Chambers, 25, faces first-degree murder charges for the Wednesday killing, according to Chicago Police.
About 12:35 a.m., the pair got into an argument in the street outside Smith’s home in the 5100 block of South Honore and Chambers shot the older man in the chest, authorities allege.
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Smith was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 12:55 a.m., the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.
Chambers, of the 11000 block of South Green, was ordered held on a $1 million bond at Friday, according to the Cook County sheriff’s office. He is due in court again Oct. 12.
--Chicago Sun-Times Wire