Shooting victim refused to cooperate with police, but detectives tracked down the 16-year-old gunman anyway. Charges filed.

CHICAGO — A 19-year-old man who practically died after being shot inside a West Facet comfort retailer has not been cooperating with Chicago police detectives. However that didn’t cease the investigators from determining who shot him, and it didn’t cease prosecutors from submitting expenses, both.

Officers say the gunman is 16-year-old Javeon Gathright. Choose Deidre Dyer ordered him to stay in custody pending trial.

Surveillance cameras at TNL comfort retailer, 5038 West Madison, recorded Gathright and 5 different individuals getting into the enterprise round 8 p.m. on March 8, Assistant State’s Lawyer Michael Rusch mentioned in a written proffer.

Because the group loitered close to the toilet, the sufferer walked in, took an merchandise from a shelf, and went to the counter to take a look at. A few individuals from Gathright’s group walked previous the sufferer, checked out him, after which returned to the again of the shop, mentioned Rusch.

Many members of the group pulled balaclava-style masks over their faces, and so they all walked towards the sufferer on the checkout counter.

Rusch mentioned Gathright reached into one among his companions’ jacket pockets, pulled out a gun, and pointed it on the sufferer. The sufferer lunged at Gathright, who fired about 4 photographs, in keeping with Rusch. Two bullets struck the sufferer in his higher again; one other went into his proper buttock, and one other entered the appropriate aspect of his groin. CPD mentioned he was in vital situation.

Whereas the sufferer didn’t cooperate, detectives circulated pictures from the shop’s surveillance system to cops within the metropolis and suburbs. A Berwyn police officer acknowledged Gathright and notified CPD, Rusch mentioned.

Gathright has no juvenile background. He’s now charged in grownup courtroom with tried first-degree homicide and aggravated battery by discharging a firearm.

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