Bail set in for illegal alien in fatal Logan Square hit-and-run

Alberto Aceves was driving home from his landscaping job Wednesday evening when he saw a black Dodge Neon in front of him strike a man who was crossing the street in Chicago's bustling Logan Square neighborhood.
"I heard the impact, saw this man go up into the sky and land on the windshield," Aceves, 39, said Friday. "I thought, OK, he hit him, but the driver is going to stop. He might be all right."
But then the driver stepped on the gas, rolling over William "Dennis" McCann, 66, and dragging his body north on Kedzie Avenue, Aceves said. He chased after the hit-and-run driver to try to get a better look at the car's license plate.
I pulled up to his car yelling stop, stop the guy's under your car!'" Aceves said.
The driver, Saul Chavez, 35, was ordered held Friday on $250,000 bond on charges of aggravated DUI involving a death. Prosecutors said Chavez had a blood-alcohol content of 0.29 percent, or nearly four times the legal limit of 0.08 percent. He had no license and had completed a 2-year probation sentence in February for a 2009 drunken-driving conviction, they said.
An off-duty Chicago police officer headed home after his shift joined the chase after noticing a pair of sandals in the street and then spotting the body being dragged underneath the Neon, Assistant State's Attorney Allison Sise said.
With McCann's body still lodged under the car, Chavez stopped about a block north and ran into an alley. As Aceves gave chase on foot, the officer ran past him with his gun drawn, shouting, "Stop or I'll shoot!" according to Aceves.
"He (Chavez) turned around and me and the officer just took him down to the ground," Aceves said.
McCann, of the 2500 block of North Kedzie Avenue, died at the scene of massive internal injuries, according to police.
A former high school hockey player and avid White Sox fan, McCann graduated from Mendel Catholic High School on the South Side and was in the insurance business for more than 40 years. He worked for the last decade at the Serpe Insurance Agency office in Lincoln Park, said his colleague and friend, Jim Serpe.
"Denny was a super-nice guy, always pleasant, always fun to be around," said Serpe. "It's guys like him that you learn from."
Chavez, of the 3200 block of West Wilson Avenue, moved to Chicago from California three years ago and worked at a North Side restaurant, his court-appointed attorney said.