Illinois State Police investigators wanted lower than 24 hours to determine and arrest the person they are saying opened fireplace throughout a highway rage confrontation on the outbound Dan Ryan Expressway.
Prosecutors mentioned it began when 33-year-old Cameron Jackson-Bey of Homewood merged in entrance of one other driver close to 71st Road round 3:35 p.m. on August 15. Jackson-Bey slammed on his brakes, stopped in the course of the expressway, acquired out, and argued with the motive force he reduce off, prosecutors mentioned in a detention petition.
As that unfolded, one other motorist, who would develop into the sufferer within the capturing try, tried to go the stopped vehicles, officers mentioned. The sufferer advised investigators he noticed Jackson-Bey seated in his car with a gun on his lap. Jackson-Bey then allegedly prolonged his arm throughout the passenger seat and aimed the pistol on the sufferer, who heard a shot fireplace as he drove previous.
Nobody was injured.
By the following day, state police had recognized and tracked down Jackson-Bey. Once they arrested him, prosecutors mentioned, they recovered a loaded handgun from below his driver’s seat. The firearm’s journal was lacking one spherical, in response to the allegations.
Jackson-Bey is charged with aggravated discharge of a firearm and aggravated illegal possession of a weapon. Decide Shauna Boliker granted the state’s request to maintain him detained.
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