A Cook County judge set bond at $2 million for a Ford Heights teenager accused of killing a Chicago Heights man.

DeLondre Townsend, 18, has been charged with one count of first-degree murder, said Cook County state's attorney's office spokesman Andy Conklin. Townsend's bond was set during a hearing on Sunday.

Townsend is accused of killing Brandon Riley, 23, of Chicago Heights. Riley was shot on Dec. 29 at 11th Street and Lexington Avenue in Ford Heights and died at the hospital on Dec. 31, according to a representative from the Cook County medical examiner said. His death has been ruled a homicide.

Riley was an innocent victim killed "in a sad case of mistaken identity," Cook County sheriff's spokesman Steve Patterson said.

"(Townsend) had a verbal disagreement with someone earlier in the day who he saw in a maroon van," Patterson said. "Several hours later, he's with friends at the corner of 11th and Lexington in Ford Heights and sees a maroon van coming toward them and thought it was the same people and it just wasn't.

"These two had no prior relationship, never came across each other before, nothing."

Patterson explained the police version of the evening's events.

"The victim just happened to be driving a maroon van and Townsend thought it was the same person and fired multiple shots at the van, all of them aiming at the driver who he thought he'd had problems with before. One of the bullets struck him in the head. Three other people in the (van) ducked down screaming and crying."

Townsend is scheduled to appear in court Jan. 22 in Markham, Conklin said.