The man accused of killing Nabil “Captain Bill” Adzal at a downtown boat harbor last summer first did what you might expect of a casual bystander: He called 911 to report that someone had fallen into Lake Michigan and then stayed at the scene to speak with responding police officers, prosecutors said Thursday.
Authorities say the 911 caller, Alexis Trader, had just punched Adzal, a 63-year-old charter captain, knocking him backward, striking his head on a metal grate, and sending him into the water at DuSable Harbor in the early morning hours of August 30.
The fatal encounter with Trader and three companions arriving at the locked entrance to Dock C around 2:43 a.m., said Assistant State’s Attorney Mike Pekara. Trader, dressed in all black with a hat and glasses, scaled the metal grates on the side of the gate, hung his body over open water, and unlocked it from inside to let his companions enter, Pekara said…