The sentencing hearing for a now 21-year-old Harvey man, convicted of murder in March in the death of 19-year-old Charles Baird, of New Lenox, began Monday, but a final decision was delayed.

The defendant, who was 16 when Baird was shot and killed at a New Lenox gas station, appeared in Will County Court Monday where the hearing was continued so his sister could be in the courtroom with him. Because the defendant was a juvenile at the time of the shooting, the Daily Southtown is not naming him.

Before Judge Amy Bertani-Tomczak continued the hearing, Charles Baird’s mother, Jennifer Baird, addressed the defendant.

She recalled May 2020, when New Lenox police showed up at their home at 2 a.m. to tell them their son had been shot outside the Circle K gas station.

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