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A career criminal has been charged in the March killing of a 6-month-old Chicago girl, the city's police superintendent said Monday at a news conference.
Garry McCarthy said Koman Willis has been charged with first-degree murder and aggravated battery in the death of Jonylah Watkins, whose death was held up nationally as a new low in Chicago's gun violence.
Willis, 33, is a gang member with at least 38 prior arrests, McCarthy said. He added that police think Willis was seeking revenge for the alleged theft of a video game system by Jonylah's father, Jonathan, who was also shot March 11.
Willis turned himself in Saturday afternoon. He came in with an attorney because he knew police were looking for him, McCarthy said.
The superintendent said this was not a case of gang violence even though the suspect and the victim's father have ties to gangs.
full: http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/27/us/illinois-baby-shooting/index.html
Bay Boy
(1,689 posts)...to make this comment. If she only had a gun!
(it takes a good baby with a gun to stop a bad guy with a gun)
pipoman
(16,038 posts)in the column of "gun violence" instead of "gang violence"...shocker there..38 arrests and running free, eh? Nice..
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)Dreamer Tatum
(10,926 posts)SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)My first comment was sarcasm