A person who skipped court docket in a violent suburban theft case 5 years in the past after which disappeared is again in custody, however solely after prosecutors say he beat a 76-year-old man to dying after which carjacked a automobile with two kids inside.
Malcom Wilson, 32, is the seventeenth individual accused of killing or attempting to kill somebody in Chicago this yr whereas on felony pretrial launch. These instances contain 35 victims, 9 of whom died.
In a detention submitting, prosecutors stated the assault and carjacking occurred round 9:14 p.m. on September 8 within the 9500 block of South Halsted Avenue. The sufferer, 76-year-old Joe Bradley, was sitting on a bus cease bench with a bag of cans at his toes. Moments later, Wilson walked up, sat beside him together with his personal bag of cans, and the 2 appeared to speak.
Prosecutors stated they started crushing cans collectively and inserting them into baggage as witnesses handed by. Then Bradley swung at Wilson just a few occasions, making contact as soon as, in response to prosecutors.
As Bradley bent down to collect cans from the bottom, Wilson allegedly lunged at him, took him to the bottom, and punched him a number of occasions. He then stood up and stomped on Bradley’s face about ten occasions, adopted by a number of kicks to the top, prosecutors stated. Wilson paced forwards and backwards as Bradley lay immobile on the bottom.
Two witnesses, neither of whom may later determine Wilson in pictures, rotated and noticed a lot of the assault. One in every of them recorded it on his telephone, capturing photos of Wilson’s face, prosecutors stated. The video allegedly reveals Wilson turning again towards Bradley, who was nonetheless immobile, and kicking him a number of extra occasions earlier than stomping on his higher physique and strolling away.
Along with the telephone video, cameras at a number of close by companies recorded the assault.
Prosecutors stated Wilson then walked to a close-by McDonald’s, approached a 2024 Kia Telluride within the parking zone that had the keys within the ignition, and drove off with it. The proprietor’s two grandchildren, ages 14 and three, had been within the again seat. Wilson stopped briefly to take away the youngsters from the automotive, fighting the older boy and claiming he had a gun whereas threatening to beat the kid, in response to prosecutors.
Paramedics found his head wedged beneath a bus shelter partition, and firefighters needed to reduce the construction to take away him, prosecutors stated. He was pronounced lifeless.
However, unbeknownst to Wilson, the 3-year-old’s iPad was nonetheless contained in the Kia, and the kid’s mom used it to trace the automobile to Dolton after which to Schererville, Indiana, the place she adopted the Kia till native police arrived and arrested Wilson. Prosecutors stated he “made admissions to knocking out the sufferer” and “stomping on him” after Bradley hit him first.
Choose William Gamboney ordered Wilson detained on two counts of homicide, two counts of aggravated vehicular hijacking with a passenger beneath 16, and one rely of possessing a stolen motorized vehicle.
Court docket information present Wilson was charged with theft and aggravated battery in suburban Markham in 2019. He stopped showing in court docket the next summer time, and a failure-to-appear warrant was issued for his arrest in August 2020, in response to the information. He was beforehand convicted of theft of a sufferer older than 60 in 2015, receiving a four-year sentence, prosecutors stated.
The “not horrible” sequence
This report continues our protection of people accused of killing, taking pictures, or attempting to kill or shoot others on pretrial launch for a felony allegation. CWBChicago started our sequence of studies in November 2019 after Cook dinner County Chief Choose Timothy Evans publicly said, “We haven’t had any horrible incidents happen” beneath the court docket’s bond reform initiative.
The precise variety of murders and shootings dedicated by folks awaiting trial for felony allegations is undoubtedly a lot increased than the numbers seen right here. Since 2017, CPD has introduced expenses in lower than 5% of non-fatal shootings and 33% of murders, in response to the town’s information. You may see all the “not horrible” tales right here.
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