A Chicago man who was arrested late final month after allegedly working from police with a gun is now accused of robbing and carjacking a person with a machine gun simply three weeks later.
Chicago police arrested 23-year-old Donnell Melvin round 9:15 p.m. on July 31 within the 700 block of East 63rd Avenue. A CPD report says officers noticed Melvin strolling with a gun in his waistband, so that they tried to cease him. Melvin ran whereas clutching his waist, then hid behind a trash can, the report mentioned. Officers discovered him there and allegedly situated a loaded pistol on the opposite facet of a fence behind him. The alternative facet of that fence, police famous, was a daycare heart.
Melvin was charged with illegal possession of a weapon and launched from custody the next day.
Precisely 20 days later, round midday on August 20, Melvin resurfaced in Countryside. Armed with one other gun, this one fitted with a change to make it totally automated, Melvin and 18-year-old Soee Williams robbed and carjacked a person of a Jeep Cherokee at a BP station within the suburb, prosecutors mentioned.
Based on The Patch, officers rapidly situated the SUV, chased it onto an Interstate 294 ramp, and watched because it crashed. One suspect was arrested on the spot whereas the opposite bumped into close by woods, sparking a manhunt involving a number of companies, the outlet reported.
Melvin and Williams are charged with aggravated vehicular hijacking and armed theft with a firearm. Melvin additionally faces a cost of possessing a machine gun. Decide Mohammed Ghouse ordered each males detained.
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