May 24, 2022- 7:02 a.m.
Investigators searched Leon’s phone and found videos and pictures from the crime scene that showed him “trolling the police.”
“This is legendary footage right here. … Who would do such a thing?” Leon allegedly said in one video. “Thank you for coming.
Appreciate it. They said somebody got to shooting. I know who did it, too. I know who was shooting, too.
This s— is funny as hell. We just toying with their a–.”
The disturbing monologue came after Leon perched in the window of his apartment in the 3900 block of West Irving Park Road around 11:30 p.m. and fired at the van with the help of a laser sight, prosecutors said.
After his rifle jammed, he re-loaded and fired again as a witness inside the apartment watched
An 18-year-old man used a “ghost gun” earlier this year to fatally shoot a passing driver from the window of his Irving Park apartment over concerns the other man’s van “was being too loud,” prosecutors said during his initial court hearing Monday.
Gaven Leon, 18, is charged with first-degree murder in the Feb. 3 slaying of 30-year-old Ryan Balbag in the 4000 block of North Pulaski Road.
