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The city’s 19th Ward which includes Beverly, Mount Greenwood and Morgan Park is more than doubling the number of police cameras it has on the streets.
Ald. Matt O’Shea (19th) is using about $300,000 from a $1.3 million discretionary fund that every alderman gets for ward improvements to pay for 12 or 13 new cameras. The alderman said Friday he hopes the cameras will be installed by the end of summer.
Eleven police cameras are now deployed in the ward.
The police camera feeds are monitored nonstop by officers in a special room known as a Strategic Decision Support Center at the Morgan Park District station.
The fourth and final suspect in the carjacking murder of retired Chicago Fire Lt. Dwain Williams was charged after authorities traced his DNA on a shoe he lost at the crime scene, Cook County prosecutors said Friday.
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The fourth and final suspect in the carjacking murder of retired Chicago Fire Lt. Dwain Williams was charged after authorities traced his DNA on a shoe he lost at the crime scene, Cook County prosecutors said Friday.
Jaylen Saulsberry, 19, is one of two gunmen who shot at Williams in Morgan Park early last month, prosecutors said.
However, authorities do not yet know whether Saulsberry fired the bullet that struck Williams in the abdomen outside of Let’s Get Poppin,’ at 11758 S. Western Ave.
All four defendants were part of a “carjacking crew” believed to be responsible for other crimes in the Far South Side neighborhood, police said.
Third Person Charged in Fatal Shooting of Ret. Chicago Firefighter
29 Dec 2020
A 20-year-old suspect is now charged in the December 3, 2020, fatal shooting of retired Chicago firefighter Dwaine Williams.
WGN9 reports Devin Barron is charged with first degree murder in connection with Williams’ (pictured) death. CBC Chicago says officers with the Great Lakes Regional Fugitive Task Force arrested Barron in Lansing, Illinois, making him the third of four suspected carjackers involved in the fatal incident.
On December 17, 2020, Breitbart News noted a 15-year-old was arrested and faced charges of first degree murder in connection with Williams’ death.
On December 18, 2020, Breitbart conveyed the news a second suspect, 18-year-old Dwain Johnson, had been arrested and charged with first degree murder in connection with the fatal shooting of Williams as well.