July 27, 2022
Chicago – Shawn Brown, 31, a man was shot in the head Monday evening on 3800 block of West Thomas, Humboldt Park community, Chicago’s west side on Monday July 25, 2022.
Around 1:20 p.m., police say the 31-year-old casualty was in the road in the 3800 block of West Thomas Street in the Humboldt Park neighborhood when a vehicle pulled up and a someone inside took out a firearm and discharged shots.
Chicago year to date has 389 homicides and 62 in July alone.
More News: Suspect in Chicago July 4 shooting indicted on 117 felonies
Robert E Crimo III indicted on 21 counts of first-degree murder, 48 of attempted murder and 48 of aggravated battery.
Prosecutors previously filed seven murder charges against Crimo. They announced the grand jury’s decision to indict him on 117 felony charges on Wednesday.
Authorities have said the more than 30 wounded range in age from eight to their 80s, including an eight-year-old boy who was paralysed from the waist down when his spine was severed in the shooting.
Prosecutors said on Monday that the 48 attempted murder counts and 48 counts of aggravated battery with a firearm represent “each victim who was struck by a bullet, bullet fragment, or shrapnel”.
Crimo is due to appear in court on August 3.
Investigators believe Crimo blended in with the fleeing crowd to get away from the scene, then borrowed his mother’s car and briefly contemplated a second attack on a celebration in Madison, Wisconsin, before returning to Illinois where police arrested him.
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