New particulars have emerged a couple of theft and capturing that left a 17-year-old boy combating for his life on a West Rogers Park soccer area final month.
Prosecutors now say one other 17-year-old, Marlon Colin, shot the sufferer throughout a theft try after which fled on a Lime scooter. The capturing occurred on the soccer area at Stone Scholastic Academy, 6239 North Leavitt, simply earlier than 5 p.m. on July 13.
The sufferer had gone to the park to benefit from the summer season climate and was sitting alone, listening to music on a bench close to the soccer area, in line with a proffer ready by Assistant State’s Lawyer Mike Pekara and supplied by the Prepare dinner County State’s Lawyer’s Workplace.
Pekara wrote that Colin, wearing all black with shaggy darkish hair and sun shades, approached the opposite boy from behind and demanded his bag. He allegedly displayed a black handgun, first tucked close to his armpit after which hidden beneath his shirt. When the sufferer tried to flee on a scooter that may not begin, Colin pressed nearer and grabbed for his bag. Colin shot him when he tried to flee once more, Pekara stated.
The bullet handed via the sufferer’s arm and into his torso, damaging his lung and esophagus. He has undergone a number of surgical procedures, battled infections, and remained hospitalized as Colin appeared in courtroom on Tuesday.
In keeping with Pekara’s proffer, a toddler within the park noticed the confrontation and heard the sufferer plead, “You don’t have to do that,” simply earlier than Colin pulled the set off. The kid noticed the gunman zoom previous him on a Lime scooter.
The sufferer went to a close-by street and flagged down a passing motorist for assist.
Detectives later reviewed CPD surveillance digicam footage and located footage of somebody matching the robber’s description leaving the world on a Lime scooter. The sufferer later recognized that particular person because the shooter, Pekara stated.
As CWBChicago reported beforehand, there had been a string of comparable armed robberies within the space involving a scooter-riding suspect with an analogous description. A “in search of to establish” bulletin in a kind of instances included a photograph of a suspect on a Lime scooter that prosecutors say matched Colin. Data from Lime allegedly confirmed Colin had an account in his identify and rented scooters on the day of the capturing.
Based mostly on that info, detectives positioned Colin in a photograph line-up and prosecutors say the sufferer recognized him because the shooter.
Colin is charged with tried first-degree homicide, aggravated battery with a firearm, and armed theft. Decide Susana Ortiz granted the state’s detention petition.
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