Man charged with shooting 16-year-old boy near the Mag Mile

CHICAGO — Prosecutors have charged a person with capturing a 16-year-old boy from Delaware on a bustling downtown road nook Friday afternoon.

Jasean Butler, 19, fired “a number of” pictures towards the boy on the nook of Wabash and Chicago Avenue round 4:45 p.m., officers mentioned. Bullets struck the boy within the shoulder and in addition struck a 24-year-old man who was standing close by, prosecutors mentioned.

The capturing was recorded by a Chicago police surveillance digicam and safety cameras at a close-by Chick-fil-A, based on courtroom data.

A CPD surveillance officer who rapidly reviewed quite a lot of video feeds decided that the gunman fled onto a southbound Purple Line prepare on the State-Chicago cease, a police report said.

In accordance with the report, officers intercepted a prepare at Roosevelt shortly after 5 p.m. and detained Butler as a result of he and the girl he was sitting subsequent to matched the suspect descriptions.

The lady turned out to be Butler’s girlfriend. A backpack that cops noticed sitting between the couple on the prepare contained a loaded 9-millimeter handgun, the report continued.

Choose Susana Ortiz granted the state’s detention petition, so Butler will keep in jail till trial except one other decide decides to let him go residence. Among the many causes Ortiz gave for holding Butler in jail was the allegation that his girlfriend recognized him because the shooter.

He’s charged with one rely of aggravated battery by discharging a firearm.

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