Three days after attorneys for the household of Dexter Reed, the person fatally shot by Chicago police after he opened hearth on an officer throughout a visitors cease, reached a tentative settlement with the town late final yr, Reed’s brother was arrested in a separate visitors cease for allegedly possessing a gun.
The Metropolis Council finally rejected the proposed $1.25 million settlement, and the civil lawsuit stays unresolved. However, Dexter’s youthful brother, Julius, just lately resolved his personal authorized issues by pleading responsible to a felony gun cost in alternate for 2 years of probation, court docket data present.
Based on a Chicago police report, officers assigned to patrol the neighborhood across the United Middle in the course of the Juice WRLD Day live performance on November 30, 2023, seen smoke coming from a white Dodge Durango parked within the 100 block of North Wolcott.
They reported seeing the silhouette of the passenger taking a success from a “hand-rolled cigar.” Primarily based on their expertise, the officers wrote, they believed that they had witnessed “hotboxing,” or smoking hashish inside a closed car to accentuate the drug’s results.
When the officers pulled the Durango over, they stated a thick cloud of smoke with the aroma of burnt hashish rolled out of the driving force’s window. Julius Reed, the car’s registered proprietor, was behind the wheel. Throughout a narcotics search, officers allegedly discovered six containers of suspected hashish that lacked legally required dispensary labels.
Police additionally searched the car’s door panels. Inside the driving force’s aspect, they allegedly recovered a stolen 9-millimeter Ruger handgun. A second void within the passenger-side panel allegedly contained a loaded Glock pistol. Officers reported that Reed admitted he had been smoking hashish earlier than the live performance and stated he had beforehand been denied a gun license due to a home violence arrest.
Choose William Gamboney handed Reed the probation sentence final Friday after Reed pleaded responsible to aggravated illegal use of an unloaded weapon, in response to court docket data. Reed should additionally submit DNA to a regulation enforcement database and carry out group service by a sheriff’s workplace program. Prosecutors dropped seven different felony counts.
Chicago police arrested Reed twice whereas his gun case was pending, in response to CPD data: as soon as within the Loop on Independence Day for allegedly having hashish, fireworks, and open alcohol in a automotive, and once more on August 17 for allegedly having hashish and fireworks in his automotive on the West Aspect. Gamboney handed him a concurrent two-year probation sentence for a type of instances, and prosecutors dropped the opposite.
This was not Reed’s first encounter with the courts. In 2019, a jury discovered him not responsible of illegally possessing a firearm. Extra just lately, the Chicago Solar-Occasions reported he was arrested throughout an April 9, 2024, protest following the discharge of body-camera footage of his brother’s loss of life. Prosecutors charged him with misdemeanor battery and resisting arrest, however the case was dropped three weeks later.
