$2M Bond For Man Charged With Shooting, Suspected in Killing

By Joseph Hosey

The police suspect a Joliet teen was involved in the killing of a man found dead in a Baker Avenue back yard Sunday morning, but murder was about the only thing Zeeshan Rashid wasn't hit with during his bond hearing Thursday afternoon.

Will County Judge Roger Rickmon ordered the 19-year-old Rashid held on a $2 million bond. Rashid faces charges of residential burglary, possession of a stolen motor vehicle, aggravated battery with a firearm, unlawful use of a weapon by a felon and attempted armed robbery.

The aggravated battery charges stem from Rashid allegedly shooting two men with a .40-caliber Glock as they sat on the porch of an Algonquin Street house on June 13. Both men survived the gun attack with one taking a bullet to the hand and the other in his leg.

The attempted armed robbery charges were in connection with separate stickups on Saturday and Monday. In the first, Rashid pointed a gun at an employee of an East Jackson Street bar and told him, "Give me all that you got," according to prosecutors. The employee had stepped outside the bar and into an alley just before the holdup and managed to run away from Rashid, a prosecutor said.

Then on Monday, Rashid tried to rob a man sitting in a car parked on Hickory Street. He again menaced the man with a gun and demanded all his money, according to prosecutors.

Rashid admitted to the two stickups while detectives were questioning him about other crimes, a prosecutor said.

The burglary and possession of a stolen motor vehicle charges were not discussed during Rashid's bond hearing and there was no information available on the cases in the circuit clerk's office late Thursday.

The $2 million bond covers all the charges. Rashid said he was not going to be able to come up with that kind of money and told Judge Rickmon, "You have a good day, your honor."

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