CHICAGO — When federal prosecutors accused Marcus Womack of having a gun while hanging out with his girlfriend on Chicago’s South Side in 2019, they said he claimed he had the gun because of unspecified threats against the woman and “tried to potential problem to solve using a weapon. firearm.” They also said he had been a member of the Gangster Disciple gang since he was 11.
Womack received a 46-month federal prison sentence in that case, according to court records.
Officials say 33-year-old Womack “randomly” chased a man into a Park Manor restaurant last weekend and shot him dead.
Police responded to Maxwell Street Polish, 7445 South State, after Ulysses Green, 41, was shot inside the restaurant around 3:46 a.m. Sunday. CPD later said Green and another man had been arguing outside.
Prosecutors told Judge Antara Rivera yesterday that Womack chased Green into the restaurant and shot him twice in the back at close range. Investigators found video from a gas station next to the restaurant that shows the gunman fleeing the scene in a vehicle. They got the license plate number of the car, which led them to Womack, officials said Tuesday.
Police found the suspected getaway car a few hours later in the 6500 block of South Evans. Officers securing the vehicle spotted Womack nearby and took him into custody, a CPD report said.
Rivera granted the state’s detention request, so Womack will remain in jail. The judge’s detention order stated that Womack shot Green “randomly” and that Womack’s car and phone records placed him at the scene of the murder.
Womack has a lengthy criminal record: 15 years for carjacking in 2012, 10 years for possession of a stolen motor vehicle in 2012, and two three-year prison sentences for possession of stolen vehicles in 2009, court records show.
The prosecutor who handled Womack’s federal case said in a court filing that Womack “is trying to absolve himself of responsibility for his prior crimes by saying he was simply motivated by a love of cars.”
Womack’s federal attorney said Womack “may appear to be a series of contradictions” and called him “thoughtful and polite” and intelligent. But, the attorney said, Womack never knew his father, and his mother’s sometimes boyfriend, a crack addict, filled that role.
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