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Bond Reduction Denied for Accused Easter Sunday Shooter
FIRST REPORTED 3:00pm 4/20/10 A Knox County judge has refused to lower the bond of a Galesburg woman accused of shooting another woman in the chest on Easter Sunday.

Judge Paul Mangieri Tuesday ordered that bond stay at $250,000 in the case of 27-year old Katonnia Kelley.

Kelley faces a Class-X felony charge of Aggravated Battery with a Firearm, along with a Class-One felony count of Aggravated Discharge of a Firearm.

Prosecutors say police were called to a home in the 500 block of Holton Street on Easter Sunday afternoon for a report of a dispute, but later determined a shooting occurred.

The alleged victim, 21-year old Chariot Campbell, was found sitting on a porch with a gunshot wound to the chest. She was later hospitalized in Peoria.

Public Defender Karl Johnson cited Kelley's lack of a criminal record, and the fact she has three children currently in foster care as reasons to lower the bond to $50,000.

But Mangieri agreed with Assistant State's Attorney Matthew Kwacala, who claimed Kelley doesn't have much of a tie to the community, and could fail to show up in court by fleeing.

A preliminary hearing also scheduled for Tuesday was continued until next Tuesday at 2pm.

Kelley remains jailed.


(Katonnia Kelley)
04 20 10 by Newsroom
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