A Chicago man has been sentenced to 30 years in jail for murdering the mom of his kids whereas he was on bail for gun prices.
Edward Roscoe, 33, pleaded responsible on Monday to fatally taking pictures 30-year-old Jessica Johnson inside her SUV on April 25, 2021, and to possessing a firearm within the earlier case. Choose Joanne Rosado sentenced him to 27 years for the homicide and a consecutive three years for the gun cost.
Johnson was driving with Roscoe in her passenger seat when the town’s ShotSpotter gunfire detection system alerted police to pictures fired within the 500 block of East 103rd Road round 10:20 p.m.
Officers discovered Johnson with a number of gunshot wounds, slumped within the driver’s seat. 5 shell casings have been contained in the automobile. Surveillance footage confirmed Roscoe getting out of the passenger seat and operating from the scene, prosecutors mentioned.
About an hour later, Roscoe returned to the Gary, Indiana, house he shared with Johnson and one other couple. Prosecutors mentioned he admitted to the couple that he shot Johnson after an argument. The couple, frightened by his demeanor, packed their kids and left. They later known as 911 after seeing information reviews of the taking pictures.
Investigators later discovered a black “No F*cks Given” baseball cap in a dumpster close to the homicide scene, prosecutors mentioned. Hours earlier, Roscoe had posted a photograph of himself on Fb carrying the identical hat.
Roscoe fled to Texas, the place he was arrested months later and extradited to Chicago.
Roscoe was no stranger to gun instances. In 2015, he served a yr for reckless discharge of a firearm. In October 2020, Chicago police allegedly discovered a loaded handgun below the driving force’s seat of his automotive throughout a site visitors cease. That weapon had been reported stolen in Indiana simply ten days earlier.
Prosecutors additionally revealed a disturbing element: 4 months earlier than killing Johnson, Roscoe dropped their toddler son, killing him. Indiana officers investigated the dying, however Roscoe was not criminally charged.
By regulation, Roscoe should serve one hundred pc of the homicide time period and half of the three-year sentence.
