A Chicago man who carjacked a Fb Market vendor whereas on digital monitoring for making an attempt to kill a Prepare dinner County sheriff’s deputy was handed a 22-year jail sentence yesterday.
Decide Adrienne Davis sentenced Dewon Cathion after the 25-year-old pleaded responsible to aggravated vehicular hijacking and tried first-degree homicide, court docket information present.
Cathion’s authorized troubles started on Thanksgiving evening in 2020, when prosecutors say he fired at an off-duty sheriff’s deputy close to a gasoline station within the 3000 block of West Van Buren Road. The deputy, who was carrying his uniform however driving his private car, was shot at by two males in one other automobile, in line with a CPD report.
A month later, prosecutors charged Cathion with tried homicide, and Decide Arthur Willis ordered him detained in lieu of $1 million bail. However in early 2021, Decide Davis lowered his required deposit to $75,000 and ordered him launched on digital monitoring, specifying “NO MOVEMENT” and “24/7 NO MOVEMENT” — that means he was supposed to stay inside his dwelling always.
Prosecutors stated Cathion violated that order at the least as soon as: on February 22, 2022, when he left his dwelling to rob and carjack a person he met by Fb Market.
Cathion allegedly agreed to purchase footwear and a sweater from the sufferer and met him on the West Aspect. The sufferer arrived in a 2018 Alfa Romeo, and Cathion approached with one other man. Through the assembly, prosecutors stated, Cathion’s confederate pointed a gun on the vendor’s chest and ordered him out of his automobile. Cathion grabbed the footwear and sweater from the person’s again seat and informed his confederate to drive away with the Alfa Romeo.
Investigators stated Cathion fled on foot, however they later linked him to the theft by Fb, Money App transactions, and, clearly, GPS location information from his ankle monitor.
Though the sufferer recognized one other man in a photograph lineup, prosecutors famous that Cathion has a definite J-shaped scar on his proper hand, matching the outline the sufferer offered instantly after the theft.
Underneath Davis’ sentence, Cathion should serve half of a 16-year sentence for the carjacking and 85% of a consecutive six-year time period for the homicide try.
