Boy was shot in the abdomen around 8:15 p.m. as he brushed his teeth before his bedtime inside his home in the 2600 block of West Potomac Avenue, according to Cook County prosecutors.
A Cook County judge on Thursday ordered a 19-year-old man accused of firing shots that killed a 7-year-old boy inside his West Side home held without bail shortly after prosecutors dropped murder charges against a second young man linked to the death., whom authorities said was an unintended victim. A 16-year-old boy was charged as a juvenile with first-degree murder on Monday, police said.Akeem was shot in the abdomen around 8:15 p.m.
According to prosecutors, Serrano and the other two, which included a juvenile, had targeted a vehicle parked behind Akeem’s townhouse with four people inside. Those individuals were believed responsible for an earlier shooting involving a member of the Campbell Boys gang, with the new shooting serving as retaliation, Assistant State’s Attorney Michael Pekara told the court.Serrano and one of his accomplices allegedly fired a combined 16 shots from separate .
One of the bullets entered Akeem’s home through a window and struck him in the back, authorities said. Video footage captured the three suspects traveling to the shooting scene and fleeing afterward, authorities said. A liquor store camera captured the offenders’ faces before the shooting, Pekara said.Chicago Tribune editors' top story picks, delivered to your inbox each afternoon.Serrano, was a high school senior who worked part time and helped raise six siblings following his mother’s death from cancer last year, according to his private attorney John McNamara.
Toward the end of the 25-minute hearing, Judge Barbara Lynette Dawkins noted the “exhaustive” investigation by law enforcement, which used multiple surveillance camera footage to trace the suspects and social media records received through a court order in approving the state’s request to deny bail. She also spoke about authorities’ “voluminous circumstantial evidence” against Serrano.
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