JOLIET, IL — More than three weeks after a Joliet teenager lost his life several hours after being hospitalized at St. Joe's with stab wounds, the Joliet Police Department has obtained an arrest warrant to take another 17-year-old into custody.
Joliet Patch found the newly filed first-degree murder charges for Jae'Vion Smith on Thursday at the courthouse. Smith lives in the 1800 block of Delrose Street in Joliet, which is near Essington Road and Thomas Hickey Drive.
The warrant lists Jae'Vion as black, standing 5-foot-4, and weighing 109 pounds. He won't turn 18 years old until October.
The criminal complaint indicates that Ja'Vion killed another Joliet teenager, Javion Bailey, on May 3, by stabbing Javion with a knife on May 3 "knowing such act created a strong probability of death or great bodily harm to Javion Bailey, thereby causing the death of Javion Bailey."
Thursday's warrant was obtained by Joliet police detective Jason Wolski, court papers show.
Earlier this month, Joliet Patch reported that, according to police spokesman Dwayne English, at 12:55 p.m., officers responded to the Riverwalk Homes Apartments in the 300 block of North Broadway Street for a daytime stabbing. The officers located a 17-year-old boy on the fifth floor of 366 N. Broadway who had sustained a serious stab wound. The victim was transported by the Joliet Fire Department to St. Joseph Medical Center, where he later died.
English said the officers secured the scene and conducted a canvass of the area. A knife was recovered at the scene, English revealed.
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