CHICAGO — 4 males who dedicated a string of carjackings and armed robberies throughout Chicago throughout two days in September 2022 are heading to federal jail. Damandre Henley, 28, acquired the lengthiest sentence: 22 years. Davario McDowell, 25, acquired 18 years, and Tyler Oates-Nelson, 29, bought 15 years. The fourth man, Dwight Hasberry, 31, shall be sentenced subsequent month.
Federal prosecutors stated the lads carjacked a 21-year-old concealed-carry holder who had a toddler within the again seat of his automobile late on September 28 within the 1400 block of West Erie. Chicago police stated the sufferer was sitting in his black Volkswagen Tiguan when a gaggle of masked males walked as much as his automobile whereas brandishing firearms.
Henley, Hasberry, and McDowell pointed weapons on the man and the toddler, who was in a automobile seat, and ordered them out of the automobile, prosecutors stated. Considered one of them took the licensed firearm proprietor’s gun from his sweater pocket earlier than the group drove away with the VW.
About 20 minutes later, the group dedicated two extra road robberies in Ravenswood, taking a backpack, cellphone, pockets, and keys earlier than transferring on to the 7-Eleven, 2900 West Montrose, officers stated.
Henley, who was paroled a month earlier for two armed robberies, allegedly grabbed the shop’s clerk by his shirt and took him to an workplace the place he requested for cash. However state prosecutors, who filed prices earlier than the feds took over, stated the sufferer didn’t converse English effectively, and he tried to elucidate that there was no cash within the workplace.
Henley tapped him on the brow twice with a handgun, then led him to the register, state officers stated. The clerk opened the registers as Henley and Hasberry held weapons to him. In the meantime, one other member of the crew loaded liquor and cigarettes into the baggage and bins.
Prosecutors stated Henley then led the sufferer again to the workplace, the place he pistol-whipped him, inflicting him to fall to the ground with a head wound.
In 2018, Oates-Nelson and one other man have been charged with robbing two 7-Eleven shops in Lincoln Park. On the time, Chicago police stated the duo’s getaway automobile had been taken in an armed carjacking. A cop on the scene when Oates-Nelson was arrested stated the automobile was “crammed” with 7-Eleven merchandise. Oates-Nelson pleaded responsible in 2019 and acquired two concurrent six-year sentences.