
A St. Clair County judge on Monday ordered a Belleville area man to remain in jail on his first-degree murder charge despite his attorney’s argument that he acted in “self-defense” in shooting another man and is not a threat to the community. Elijah C. Nelson, 22, of Kingsway Drive in unincorporated Belleville, faces the murder charge in the May 27 shooting death of 49-year-old Anthony Wilbourn on Wilbourn’s driveway at 7300 W. A St. in Belleville. The Memorial Day confrontation between Nelson and Sandifer came in the wake of a...