CHICAGO — Two males who had been relationship the identical girl agreed to settle their variations by assembly for a fistfight—a plan that went sideways when certainly one of them confirmed up with a gun, officers say. Now, one of many males, 46-year-old Gabriel Blakemore, faces tried homicide expenses.
Decide Shauna Boliker detained Blakemore, saying he “introduced a gun to a fistfight” and “blindsided” the opposite man “with the intention of capturing and taking his life.”
Prosecutors mentioned Blakemore and a 33-year-old Oak Park man organized to struggle within the first block of North Leclaire on the evening of September 1. However, when the sufferer arrived, he heard somebody say that Blakemore introduced a gun, in accordance with allegations made in court docket filings.
In line with a Chicago police report, Blakemore shot the opposite man a number of instances whereas the sufferer was sitting in his automotive, hanging him within the abdomen, proper thigh, and proper foot.
“He got here to a fistfight with a gun and easily opened fireplace on the [victim] who believed a fistfight was to ensue, not [an] ambush and a capturing,” Boliker wrote in a detention petition.
The sufferer was severely injured, however survived.
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