Overview
- Alexis Trader, already jailed on an unrelated burglary case, was charged Wednesday in the death of 63-year-old boat captain Nabil Abzal.
- He is expected to appear in Cook County court Thursday for a detention hearing on the murder charge.
- According to a police report, Trader shoved Abzal into a dock gate on Aug. 30 at DuSable Harbor, causing a head injury before the fall into Lake Michigan.
- Detectives reviewed surveillance footage that shows Abzal being propelled into a metal grate attached to the gate before entering the water.
- The medical examiner ruled the death a homicide with drowning as the cause, and officers interviewed witnesses who said they saw Abzal fall backward from the dock.