A Cook dinner County choose Saturday denied bail throughout a quick listening to for a suspect charged with fatally stabbing one other motorist close to the Magnificent Mile Tuesday.

Alan Saenz Perez, 25, was charged with first-degree homicide within the deadly stabbing of 36-year-old Jeremy Walker within the 600 block of North Dearborn Avenue Tuesday about 7 p.m.

Perez and Walker had been each touring on Dearborn and Walker was “intently following the offender’s automotive,” stated Assistant State’s Legal professional Kathryn Morrissey in courtroom.

Each drivers got here to a cease and Walker started to shout insults at Perez, whose spouse and brother had been with him in his automotive.

They continued driving however out of the blue Walker “abruptly” lower Perez off within the intersection of Ohio and Dearborn streets, inflicting Perez to honk his horn.

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Perez then grabbed a knife and ran as much as Walker, who additionally had exited his automotive however he had nothing in his palms. They brawled and Walker was in a position to maintain off Perez, who then broke free and stabbed Walker within the neck, Morrissey stated.

Bleeding profusely, Walker obtained again into his automotive and drove to Michigan Avenue, the place he flagged down police within the 600 block of North Michigan Avenue earlier than dying. He was pronounced lifeless at 7:25 p.m. Tuesday at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.

“The defendant elevated a easy site visitors dispute right into a brutal homicide of an unarmed individual on a public avenue,” Morrissey stated.

Perez fled to Indiana, however he turned himself in on Wednesday, Morrissey stated.

A lawyer appointed to defend Perez, Raed Shalabi, stated Perez is the only supporter for his household and isn’t a flight threat.

Perez, of the 2200 block of West fiftieth Place, surrendered to police Thursday within the 2400 block of West Belmont Avenue, police stated.

Perez is due again in courtroom on Aug. 30.