An 18-year-old is confronted with charges for possession of machine gun after the Chicago police were to have found the weapon in his SUV while spreading a large crowd after last weekend’s massive shooting outside St. Sabina Church.
At least five armed men were involved in the shooting, which injured seven men aged 17 to 19 between the ages of 5 and 7 pm on Saturday.
While they cleaned up the area, officers noted that a group of young men watched them ‘nervous’ in the 1200 block of West 79th Street, about a block of the Schietscène, according to a Chicago police.
The group entered a black GMC and went quickly and fled when they saw the police immediately behind the vehicle, according to the report. Officers observed suspected cannabis on the center console and placed the vehicle under supervision.
At 3:04 am the police held the 18-year-old Jermaine King after he had unlocked the SUV and started driving away, said prosecutors. During a search, officers found a backpack on the backboard with a gun with a fully charged extensive magazine and an automatic switch that automatically made machine gun fire possible, according to a detention-petition submitted to the court.
Allegedly King admitted that the backpack was his before the search revealed the weapon. He is not accused of participating in the shooting.
Judge James Murphy III denied the detention of the State and left King free on a single monitor with a daily evening clock, according to judicial data. He is confronted with accusations of illegal possession of a machine gun, two counts of worsened illegitimate possession of a weapon and a criminal channel violation.
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On Sunday, St. Sabina’s Pastor, Fr. Michael Pfleger, praised the reaction of the police and gave details about the shooting.
He said he saw that hundreds of young people gathered on Friday around 11.30 pm outside the church on 78th Street, and someone in the crowd told him it was an after-promom event. After he went to bed, the Chicago police received a tip that some people in the crowd might have been armed, Pleger said. CPD sent units to the scene to spread the crowd around 12.30 pm
For more than an hour, the police have been trying to cross the crowd to leave, but had little success. Pleger praised the efforts of the CPD to spread the meeting and noted that officers did not use violence and instead tried to convince the group to go home.
“Everyone operated in excellence,” said Pleger.
Video that is shared online showed hundreds of people collected at the intersection, on the street, on sidewalks and in a nearby parking space.
Pleger said the gunfire was shocked just before 2 hours of sleep
“While they spread people, with police cars and blue lights glowed, a car 78th Street drove off. Four people shot from all four windows on this huge crowd of a few hundred young people,” Pleger said Sunday. “Then some people started shooting back in the crowd.”
“The fact that only seven people were shot is a miracle,” he told the parish. “And the fact that nobody died is nothing but God.”
He has credited the police with possibly preventing fatalities.
“One of the people who was shot was seriously injured and the police didn’t even wait for the ambulance,” he revealed during his sermon on Sunday. “They picked up the person, took them to the hospital and perhaps saved their lives.”
Parishioners applauded.
Pleger also announced a reward of $ 10,000 for information that led to the arrest of the shooters.
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