Chicago – prosecutors have accused a chicago man of shooting his girlfriend during a fight over weed. Anthony Jones, 21, was already in pretrial release for a machine gun case when he reportedly shot the 19-year-old woman on 22 February.
Jones is the first person in charge of photographing another person in Chicago this year during the release of crime.
During the detention hearing of Jones, the assistant’s lawyer said Mary Ballow that Jones visited the woman in her apartment in the 6300 block of South Stony Island when they got into a fight.
“An argument about weed, please note,” Ballow noted.
The woman eventually called a family member who lives across the street to help her kick Jones out, Ballow said. The family member responded to her apartment and then returned home because it seemed that Jones would leave.
Minutes later the woman called her family member again and said that Jones did not leave and that she went to the family member’s house. She soon knocked on the man’s door when Jones approached and the couple started to argue, Ballow said. It was during that argument that Jones reportedly achieved a gun.
The couple walked away and ended up on Stony Island, where a surveillance camera from Chicago recorded the video with Jones on the side of the street and the woman at about 30 feet on the median, explained Ballard.
She said it seemed that the woman was walking back and forth and shouted while holding a small knife in her hand. Jones again pulled the gun out of his coat and focused it on her, Ballard said.
At that moment the woman turned around and, according to Ballard oncoming traffic, ran against traffic. Jones would chase her and eventually caught up.
Ballard said the couple showed that the couple struggled for a few seconds while the woman’s arm pumped several times while apparently held the knife. Jones hit her on the floor and stood a few moments over her before she returned over Stony Island, she claimed.
Ballard said that the woman was suffering a shot wound on her leg and Jones got a single stab wound on his chest.
The police, who responded to a phone call from an anonymous witness, arrested Jones. He reportedly admitted that he had fired his gun, but claimed self -defense, Ballard said.
Kamryn Sutton, the defender of Jones during the hearing, claimed that Jones had not fired the gun until the woman had stabbed him.
‘After you have been stabbed in the chest [with] A knife, I would almost – I would claim that you have legal justification to defend yourself, and that is exactly what Mr Jones did, although he was not allowed to have that firearm, and that is not what is in dispute, “Sutton argued.
Judge Sabra Ebersole decided to grant the detention of the state that Jones will keep in custody.
“He started the series of events,” Ebersole explained, “and he ended the series of events, so I notice that he is a specific risk for her.”
Jones is charged with aggravated battery by a firearm, worsened battery in a public place and a crime to discharge a domestic battery.
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His hanging machine gun shop was created with a CPD traffic stop in February 2024, according to the court reports. Jones was the passenger in a Hyundai with a “destroyed” side door “that put out of the vehicle in traffic,” said a CPD report.
Officers said Jones had no ID and then ran them while he was holding his waist. During a chase, the police said, Jones threw the gun over a fence. They recovered the weapon and discovered that it had an illegal aftermarket switch with which it can fire several rounds with a single trigger trigger, according to the report.
The prosecutors asked Judge Kelly McCarthy to keep him in custody to that indictment shortly after his arrest. She rejected their request.
The series ‘Not terrible’
This report continues our reporting of persons accused of killing, shooting or trying to kill or shoot at pretrial release for a crime accusation. CWBCHICAGO started our series of reports in November 2019 after Cook County Chief Judge Timothy Evans publicly mentioned“We have not had any terrible incidents” under the initiative of the Bond Reform of the Court.
The actual number of murders and shootings committed by people who are awaiting the trial for accusations of crimes is undoubtedly much higher than the number seen here. Since 2017, CPD has had less than 5% of non-fatale shootings and 33% of the murders.
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