A teenager fatally shot two people inside a vehicle on the Northwest Side just hours before he was arrested for attempting to carjack a person with the same gun, records show.
Lazerith Esteban Carrillo, 18, was charged with capital murder-multiple people, robbery and burglary of vehicles in the events that happened early Friday in the area of Vance Jackson Road and Loop 410.
just before 2 a.m. in the 400 block of Trudell Drive. Jimenez’s mother found their bodies after she tried to wake her son for work, the affidavit states.Security video from a neighbor’s house showed that the shooting happened at 12:50 a.m. A man was seen walking away from the car after shots were fired.
Officers spoke with Perez’s relatives, who said she had left home but did not return. They said she always carried her cellphone and ID with her, and she kept her ID in her phone case. Two hours after the killings were reported, a man called the police and said someone tried to carjack him at gunpoint in the 8300 block of Dudley, about a mile away from Trudell. The carjacker, identified by police as Carrillo, left when the victim’s friend walked out of the house.Police said his gun was the same caliber as the spent shell casings from the murder scene.
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