A Chicago man who carjacked a Fb Market vendor whereas on digital monitoring for attempting to kill a Prepare dinner County sheriff’s deputy was handed a 22-year jail sentence yesterday.
Choose Adrienne Davis sentenced Dewon Cathion after the 25-year-old pleaded responsible to aggravated vehicular hijacking and tried first-degree homicide, court docket information present.
Cathion’s authorized troubles started on Thanksgiving evening in 2020, when prosecutors say he fired at an off-duty sheriff’s deputy close to a fuel station within the 3000 block of West Van Buren Avenue. The deputy, who was sporting his uniform however driving his private car, was shot at by two males in one other automobile, in response to a CPD report.
A month later, prosecutors charged Cathion with tried homicide, and Choose Arthur Willis ordered him detained in lieu of $1 million bail. However in early 2021, Choose Davis decreased his required deposit to $75,000 and ordered him launched on digital monitoring, specifying “NO MOVEMENT” and “24/7 NO MOVEMENT” — which means he was supposed to stay inside his house always.
Prosecutors stated Cathion violated that order at the very least as soon as: on February 22, 2022, when he left his house to rob and carjack a person he met by way of Fb Market.
Cathion allegedly agreed to purchase footwear and a sweater from the sufferer and met him on the West Facet. The sufferer arrived in a 2018 Alfa Romeo, and Cathion approached with one other man. Throughout the assembly, prosecutors stated, Cathion’s confederate pointed a gun on the vendor’s chest and ordered him out of his automobile. Cathion grabbed the footwear and sweater from the person’s again seat and informed his confederate to drive away with the Alfa Romeo.
Investigators stated Cathion fled on foot, however they later linked him to the theft by way of Fb, Money App transactions, and, clearly, GPS location knowledge from his ankle monitor.
Though the sufferer recognized one other man in a photograph lineup, prosecutors famous that Cathion has a definite J-shaped scar on his proper hand, matching the outline the sufferer supplied instantly after the theft.
Below Davis’ sentence, Cathion should serve half of a 16-year sentence for the carjacking and 85% of a consecutive six-year time period for the homicide try.
