CHICAGO – A man accused of robbing two women in Logan Square, along with an accomplice who shot one of the victims, has been sentenced to seven years.
The women, ages 29 and 26, were walking in the 1900 block of North Spaulding one evening in May 2023 when they encountered two men riding bicycles blocking the crosswalk at Cortland Street, prosecutors said.
As the women continued walking, they heard two voices behind them demanding, “Purses! Purses!”
The younger woman turned around and saw a man in a red hoodie pointing a gun at them. As the women removed their purses, the gunman fired a shot, striking the 26-year-old in her left calf, officials said. Both women ran and sounded the buzzers at a nearby apartment building until someone let them in.
The uninjured woman wrapped her sweater around the woman’s leg to slow her blood loss until police and paramedics arrived.
Meanwhile, Chicago police officers searched the area and soon found two men on bicycles. Prosecutors said they removed black latex gloves from their hands about two blocks away from the shooting site.
Both men sped away on their bikes, but police caught one of them: D’Angelo Moore of Hazelcrest. The other man who fired the gun escaped and was never charged.
Moore, 23, has struck a deal with prosecutors and pleaded guilty to armed robbery without a firearm in exchange for Judge Timothy Joyce’s seven-year sentence. Prosecutors dropped a handful of more serious charges, including armed robbery with a firearm and aggravated battery by discharging a firearm, that could have led to much longer sentences.
