Man injured during Uptown shootout was also one of the gunmen, prosecutors say

CHICAGO — Prosecutors have charged a person with taking part in a shootout on a busy Uptown avenue in September, saying surveillance video confirmed him firing a rifle through the altercation. Jabri Sims, 26, was additionally shot through the confrontation.

Police responded to a name of photographs fired within the 4900 block of North Kenmore round 12:55 p.m. on September 23. About quarter-hour later, Sims walked into Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Heart to be handled for a gunshot wound, officers stated.

On the time, based mostly on info police got on the hospital, CPD introduced that he had been shot in Streeterville, coincidentally on the similar intersection the place Jussie Smollett claimed to have been attacked.

In Uptown, although, detectives allegedly discovered video that confirmed Sims firing a rifle and two cops who knew Sims acknowledged him from the footage. Investigators later discovered a music video that featured Sims holding a firearm whereas carrying garments just like what the gunman wore, prosecutors claimed.

Sims is charged with illegal use of a weapon by a felon and illegal use of a weapon by a felon with a earlier conviction.

Choose Ankur Srivastava detained Sims pending trial. The choose’s detention order stated Sims has three felony convictions, together with one for gun possession, and he presents a public security threat as a result of he “engaged in a shootout with a rifle in the midst of the afternoon.”

Sims’ earlier gun conviction stemmed from a CPD and federal legislation enforcement raid of an Uptown house in 2017. On the time, prosecutors claimed he was present in possession of 90 grams of suspected heroin price $13,500, $600 price of pot, and a defaced 6-shot revolver. He finally pleaded responsible to possessing a stolen firearm and a narcotics cost in trade for a three-year sentence, in response to courtroom data.