Man convicted in slaying of U of C doctoral student

A Cook County jury late Monday convicted a man of first-degree murder in the slaying of a University of Chicago doctoral student during a botched robbery nearly four years ago.
Demetrius Warren, 21, was also found guilty of armed robbery and aggravated discharge of a firearm in the November 2007 shooting death of Amadou Cisse, a Senegal native who was accosted by Warren and a crew of stick-up men who were allegedly prowling the area around the Hyde Park campus looking to carry out “licks,” or robberies.