A 60-year-old guy allegedly shot and killed a person for the reason that sufferer didn’t pay for the marijuana he gave him outdoor a Back of the Yards fuel station.
Terry Johnson introduced to promote marijuana to Nathaniel Walker when he spotted Walker strolling out of the Citgo station with blunts round nine p.m. Friday, Assistant Cook County State’s Attorney James Murphy stated.
Walker took the marijuana however didn’t pay Johnson and began riding away with a pal, Murphy stated Monday at Johnson’s bond listening to on the Leighton Criminal Courthouse.
Johnson, who used to be on foot, grabbed 31-year-old Walker’s automotive and shot Walker via an open window, placing him in the back of the ear, within the 5100 block of South Halsted Street, Murphy stated.
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Walker — nonetheless on the wheel — then drove throughout Halsted Street, crashing right into a church parking space. The Englewood guy used to be pronounced useless on the scene.
Johnson, additionally from Englewood, fled in his automotive after the taking pictures. But he returned to the fuel station Saturday, the place he used to be arrested through Chicago cops, Murphy stated.
Security digital camera pictures on the Citgo station captured the deadly taking pictures and officials discovered a bullet in Johnson’s automotive, Murphy stated.
Johnson served as a mechanic within the U.S. Navy from 1976 to 1982 and have been not too long ago operating for NAPA Auto Parts in Naperville, Assistant Public Defender Theodore Thomas informed Judge Arthur Willis.
He additionally suffers from seizures and has already been taken to the sanatorium as a result of a seizure since his arrest, Thomas added.
Johnson’s prior legal document comprises seven disasters to document, Murphy stated.
Willis ordered Johnson held with out bail for first-degree homicide.
But as a result of Murphy famous that Johnson’s arrest document didn’t explain the place he grabbed Walker’s automotive, Willis stated that if it seems Johnson used to be in entrance of the auto and can have been probably run over — offering a controversy of self-defense — Johnson’s no-bail order can be reconsidered.