Waukegan man arrested months after Zion murder

Three months after Che Hearns, 31, was found shot in his Zion apartment, a Waukegan man is in custody.

Tavares Reed, 28, was arrested Saturday in Chicago on a first-degree murder warrant issued in October, the Zion Police Department said in a news release Tuesday.

Hearns was found suffering from a gunshot wound 7:30 a.m. Sept. 17 by officers responding to a report of shots fired. Hearns later was pronounced dead at a hospital.

Reed and Hearns had had a heated encounter in a Kenosha tavern earlier that morning, after which Reed went to Hearns' apartment and fired into it, according to police.

Reed was on parole for a weapons violation at the time of the shooting, the news release said. He left the state shortly after the shooting, sparking a long investigation by Zion police, authorities said.