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CHICAGO â A murder charge and 18 other counts have been filed against a teenager suspected in the fatal shooting of a 7-year-old Chicago girl at a McDonald s drive-thru, police said Saturday.
The charges against Marion Lewis, 18, also include three counts of attempted murder and aggravated assault of a police officer, police Supt. David Brown said during a news conference.
Other suspects who also are believed to have been involved in the killing of Jaslyn Adams remain at large, Brown said. He would not say what investigators believed Lewis role was in the shooting.
Lewis was captured Thursday while trying to steal a family s car on the Eisenhower Expressway after crashing his own trying to elude police, Brown said. He is expected to survive being shot several times by a police officer who was trying to arrest him, police have said.
Flanked by family members and supporters who helped hold him up, Jontae Adams speaks to reporters Wednesday evening during a vigil for his 7-year-old daughter, Jaslyn Adams, outside the girl’s grandmother’s West Side home. Jaslyn was fatally shot Sunday while in line at a McDonald’s drive-thru with her father, Jontae Adams, who suffered one gunshot wound to the back and survived. Jontae Adams was released Tuesday from Stroger Hospital.
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About 75 neighbors, family members and friends gathered in East Garfield Park Wednesday evening to honor the life of 7-year-old Jaslyn Adams, who was fatally shot Sunday as she and her father were getting food at a McDonald’s drive-thru.
Johnny Adams, grandfather of Jaslyn Adams (center, black hat), watches as over 100 balloons are released, at a McDonalds located a 3200 West Roosevelt Rd, in the Homan Square neighborhood, Monday, April 19, 2021. It was the scene of a shooting the left 7-year-old Jaslyn dead, and her father Jontae Adams seriously wounded.
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On Monday, Johnny Adams returned to a West Side McDonald’s that he used to manage but not to walk down memory lane.
Rather, Adams, nearing 50 and now a trucking dispatcher who lives in Bolingbrook, came to attend a memorial for his 7-year-old granddaughter, Jaslyn, who was shot to death while in line at the drive-thru with her father.
Published April 20. 2021 12:05AM
Sarah Freishtat, Katherine Rosenberg-Douglas and Rosemary Sobol, Chicago Tribune
CHICAGO – The 7-year-old girl killed Sunday afternoon while with her father in a McDonald’s drive-thru was a first-grade student who attended a Chicago public school in Humboldt Park, and Chicago detectives are investigating her fatal shooting as possibly targeting her father, according to police.
Jaslyn Adams, 7, was shot six times Sunday as she and her father waited at the McDonald’s in the Homan Square neighborhood on the West Side, a preliminary police report states.
A responding police officer took the gravely injured child in a squad car and rushed her to Stroger Hospital, where she was pronounced dead at 4:39 p.m. Her father, 29, with whom she had been in an Infiniti sedan at the time of the shooting, was shot once in the lower back, the report states. He also was taken to Stroger in serious condition.