22-year-old man is city's 73rd homicide

WESTWOOD - A 22-year-old man was shot and killed here Wednesday night near the intersection of McHenry and Iroll avenues, police said.

At 8:37 p.m., police responded to a call of someone being shot and found Kevin Fisher, who was taken to University Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

The killing was the 73rd homicide this year. The city recorded its highest number of slayings in 1971 with 81.

Anyone with information about Fisher's death can call Crime Stoppers at 352-3040.

St. Bernard man held in connection to theft

CORRYVILLE - A St. Bernard man was arrested Thursday in connection with a robbery in front of Children's Hospital Medical Center.

The suspect also tried to rob two other people in the nearby Ronald McDonald House parking lot before he was arrested, according to police reports.

Police arrested Ronnell Payne, 28, in Avondale a short time after the robberies. He was charged with three counts of aggravated robbery.

About 2:05 a.m. in front of the hospital, a man walked up to one victim and said: "Give me your money or I will shoot you," police reports said. The victim gave him $5.

Five minutes later, the same man walked up to two people in the Ronald McDonald House parking lot and told them he had a gun. A gun was never seen, and the victims did not give the man any money.