No Bond For IIT Student Charged With Beating Classmate To Death

(STMW) -- Bond was denied Saturday for an Illinois Institute of Technology student charged with fatally beating a fellow student with a tree branch early Thursday on the school's Bronzeville neighborhood campus on the South Side.

Carlos Wilson, 43, faces first-degree murder charges for the 5 a.m. attack in the 3000 block of South Wabash, according to Chicago Police.

Wilson was returning to campus with 36-year-old Jermiron "Jay" Morris when they got into a fight that turned fatal, authorities said. A police source alleged Wilson used a tree branch to kill the younger man.

Morris, of the 3900 block of West Congress, was found on the ground with facial trauma and taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where he died within the hour, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office. His death was ruled a homicide.

IIT security officers arrested Wilson and turned him over to Chicago Police.

Wilson, of the 8500 block of South Constance, had been on probation for an unrelated case and was ordered held without bond at a Saturday hearing, according to Cook County Circuit Court records.

According to a statement from the school, Morris received IIT's Presidential Scholarship and transferred to the Industrial Technology and Management Department in 2013 after working as a trucker and earning an associate's degree in logistics at Richard J. Daley College. He was expected to graduate this year.

"I am very proud to be an ambassador for INTM and IIT in my community," Morris said in a statement on the school's website. "As I begin my final year of study, I feel very prepared to face whatever challenges await."

He is due back in court Monday.

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