A shoe that fell off a 19-year-old Chicago Heights man led to murder charges after it was found at the scene where a 65-year-old retired Chicago fire lieutenant was fatally shot during a botched carjacking, prosecutors said.
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CHICAGO Since Chicago has adopted an “affordable bail” approach that allows more people charged with violent crimes to pay a fee to be released, at least 32 have been arrested for committing violent crimes
after they were released back out on the streets.
CWBChicago reported Tuesday that it “identified 32 people who were charged with committing murder, attempted murder, or aggravated battery with a firearm while free on bail for serious felonies in 2020.”
Four of those identified by the news organization were “charged with shooting, and sometimes killing, more than one person.”
“But the actual number of killings and shootings committed by persons on bail is almost certainly much higher. As of the new year, arrests have been made in just 27% of Chicago’s 2020 murders and 2.7% of non-fatal shootings, according to data” of the Chicago Police Department, the news organization reported.
Two teens, including a 15-year-old and an 18-year-old, have also been charged in the shooting. Police say it was the past crimes of an alleged “carjacking crew” around the Chicago area that helped lead to an arrest in the killing of a retired fire lieutenant in the city. NBC 5 s Charlie Wojciechowski reports.
Williams was shot and killed as he left a gourmet popcorn shop Let s Get Poppin, located in the 11700 block of South Western Avenue in Chicago s Beverly Woods neighborhood, according to police.
The Chicago Police Department released surveillance footage earlier this month showing the moments leading up to and following the fatal shooting.
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