UpdatedTue, Mar 2, 2021 at 10:52 am CT
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Bail was set at $5 million for Joliet murder defendant Derrell Draper. (Mugshot via Will County Jail )
ELWOOD, IL A 38-year-old Joliet man had his bail set at $5 million in connection with Friday s homicide of a 30-year-old Shorewood man at the CenterPoint Intermodal Center in Elwood.
Derrell Draper was taken into custody by Elwood police and booked into the Will County Jail around 10:30 p.m. Saturday and charged with one count of first-degree murder.
On Sunday evening, Elwood Police Chief Fred Hayes told Patch that homicide victim Robert Bigger of Shorewood and Draper were coworkers at The Home Depot warehouse at CenterPoint and both men had just finished their shift and left work around 3 a.m.