A Chicago rapper who performs as “Cloutboii Meechie” has been charged with making an attempt to homicide a person who was shot whereas driving on the West Facet, officers mentioned.
The sufferer, a 24-year-old man, arrived at Humboldt Park Well being Middle with a gunshot wound to his face round 10:20 p.m. on October 22. He advised Chicago cops he was ready for a lightweight to vary within the 5200 block of West Chicago Avenue when somebody shot him.
Investigators pulled video from a close-by liquor retailer that confirmed what prosecutors described as a “transient verbal altercation” between the sufferer and one other man within the car parking zone. Because the sufferer pulled away in his Nissan Rogue, the opposite man pulled out a gun and fired a number of pictures towards the sufferer and different autos within the space.
A few week after the capturing, investigators discovered that the suspected gunman glided by the nickname Clout and used an Instagram account underneath the identify cloutboiimeechie, a detention submitting mentioned. Prosecutors wrote that CPD intelligence personnel acknowledged the account as belonging to Demetrius Lewis, and extra officers recognized Lewis in surveillance photographs of the gunman. A witness later picked Lewis out of a photograph lineup, in keeping with the allegations.
Lewis has a 2020 armed theft conviction and a juvenile adjudication for armed theft. He’s now charged with tried first-degree homicide and two counts of aggravated discharge of a firearm.
Choose Antara Rivera ordered him detained pending trial.
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