CHICAGO (AP) A 79-year-old used car dealer fatally shot a 40-year acquaintance during an argument over a gambling debt, Cook County prosecutors said Saturday.
The Chicago Tribune reports that James Kelley, 72, was killed by a gunshot wound to the back about 3:25 p.m. Wednesday at Dunmore’s Auto Sales in Chicago’s Grand Crossing neighborhood.
Willie Dunmore was charged with first-degree murder and held on a $200,000 bond. Prosecutors said at Dunmore’s bond hearing that he and Kelley had known each other for four decades and that Kelley repeatedly went to the auto dealer to collect on an old gambling debt.
A friend of Kelley’s drove him there again Wednesday and waited while Kelley went inside. The friend reported seeing Dunmore’s s…
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