The godly child is from Chicago's south side.
Posted on 09/17/2020 7:33:42 PM PDT by simpson96
A judge set bond at $1 million during an extradition hearing Thursday for an 18-year-old college student accused of shooting his roommate at Western Illinois University.
After turning himself in at a Chicago police station, Kavion Poplous faces charges in connection with the shooting, which took place at the school on Tuesday night.
The university said Poplous turned himself in at a Chicago Police Department precinct and was taken into custody by the FBI around 1:30 p.m. Wednesday. An arrest warrant was issued earlier in the day for Poplous on charges of attempted first-degree murder, aggravated battery and aggravated discharge of a firearm, the school said.
According to WIU, the shooting happened just after 10:30 p.m. Tuesday inside Thompson Hall at the school's Macomb campus.
Authorities believe the shooting stemmed from a dispute between roommates at the school. A smoke alarm ultimately led students to evacuate the residence hall at the school, and classes were canceled on Wednesday after the shooting.
Information on the student shot, including his condition, was not immediately released, but authorities said during a press conference Wednesday morning the student underwent surgery.
"Our thoughts are with our student who remains hospitalized, and we pray for a speedy recovery," said WIU Interim President Martin Abraham during a press conference.
In a family statement issued to NBC Chicago by community activist Darryl Smith, who has been in contact with the student’s family, Smith said Poplous' mother, “wants people to know that her son isn’t a monster; he was a godly child going to college trying to better his life.”
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The godly child is from Chicago's south side.
Im ok with it
Judges have discretion for weighing multiple factors in seting bail amounts
They also can refuse bail
This judge did not refuse bail
How different is he from other Amish teenagers?
Not my kid.
If you watch the new clip, it’s almost exclusively a defense of this “angel”.
I remember shooting my roommates like it was just yesterday.
I was an aspiring rapper, turning my life around when...
Not really a question that crossed my mind
I have spent time in Macomb. It’s a nice, conservative-leaning small city/big town.
Anyone on here would really like any place in the central-western and southern portions of Illinois. Many small towns everywhere around the state are consistently conservative. Cities like Champaign, Urbana, Peoria and a few others are liberal. Bloomington-Normal keeps electing crazy liberal people for local government, but they vote Republican for other offices.
Illinois is filled with many more wonderful people than you could imagine, but it’s run by the overwhelming liberal voting block out of the Chicago area, so the entire government is corrupt from years of this.
There are counties in Illinois wishing to secede from Chicago.
I’ve been to Macomb....
...........at this point there’s not enough information to come to a conclusion. Maybe the kid was defending himself...........who knows?
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