The Latest: Drink spill led to fight before fatal shooting

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – The Latest on the shooting at a party in Champaign (all times local):

1:20 p.m.

Champaign County State’s Attorney Julia Rietz says the fight that preceded the shooting Sunday near the University of Illinois campus appears to have begun after one woman spilled a drink on another at a party.

Police say the party was at an apartment in the Campustown area that runs through the middle of campus. The large party spilled out of the apartment.

Rietz said the drink spill led to a fight involving the women and then to a man being severely beaten by a large group of men. Police say the victim of the beating has since been released from the hospital.

The shooting that killed one man and injured three people happened a short time later.

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10:45 a.m.

Police say an arrest warrant for a first-degree murder charge has been issued for an 18-year-old man in the deadly shooting at a party on the University of Illinois campus.

Police said Wednesday that they’re looking for Robbie Patton, of Champaign, and believe he’s still in the area.

The early Sunday shooting came during at a fight at an apartment in the campus’ main commercial district. George Korchev, a 22-year-old from Mundelein, was killed and three others were wounded. None of the victims was involved in the altercation.

Champaign County State’s Attorney Julia Rietz said Patton pleaded guilty in April to aggravated discharge of a firearm in a December shooting incident.

A judge sent him to boot camp instead of to prison over objections from prosecutors, and Patton completed boot camp three weeks ago.