CHICAGO NEGRO VIOLENCE - Hyatt Regency hotel at McCormick Place killing was over a Negro making pass at someone's black sow breeding wildebeest girlfriend, prosecutors say - Armonte Hooper, 23, is charged with shooting Courtney Taylor during a birthday party in the lobby of the Hyatt Regency hotel at McCormick Place

A dispute over a woman led to the killing of a West Side man in the lobby of the Hyatt Regency hotel at McCormick Place last weekend, prosecutors said Saturday.

Armonte Hooper, 23, is charged with shooting Courtney Taylor during a birthday party Jan. 23 in the lobby of the hotel, 2233 S. King Drive. In Cook County bond court Saturday, Judge Laura Marie Sullivan ordered Hooper held with no bail.

Prosecutors said Taylor, 25, and his friends had stayed at the birthday party for a short time before deciding to leave. Upon leaving, a male partygoer who Taylor didn't know approached Taylor and his friends and accused Taylor of hitting on his girlfriend.

The man, whom Taylor did not know, was with Hooper — who along with his friends became verbally aggressive toward Taylor and his friends until a fight broke between both groups, prosecutors said.

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