The Chicago police say they have identified the man who is responsible for a shooting in the White Palace Grill in the South Loop last summer. Delegates who attended the Democratic National Convention were located throughout the night dinner when the shooting took place on August 23.
The police said that a 42-year-old man left the restaurant, 1159 South Canal, when a man who was wearing a security outfit shot, shot him in the back, both arms and hand.
Within a few days after the shooting, CPD released surveillance images of the suspected shooter and the Silver Ford Focus that he was driving.
Now the police say they have identified the 31-year-old Delvin Bryant as the shooter. But public prosecutors did not charge Bryant of shooting someone. Instead, he is accused of a repeated criminal in possession of a firearm.
We will know more about the details of the case after Bryant appears in court. However, the lack of charges suggests that public prosecutors believe that he had a justification for firing his weapon.
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