CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) — The Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office has dropped all charges against a mother and her 14-year-old son following a deadly shooting in a restaurant on the Far South Side.
The shooting took place on June 18 at Maxwell Street Express, located at 116th and Halsted Streets. Prosecutors later charged the boy with first-degree murder and the mother with contributing to the delinquency of a minor.
On Monday, the Cook State’s Attorney’s Office said “emerging evidence” has prompted the dismissal of the charges against the woman and her son.
“Based upon the facts, evidence and the law, we are unable to meet our burden of proof in the prosecution of these cases,” the state’s attorney’s office said in a statement
The mother’s court date had previously been set for July, but prosecutors announced they were dropping the charges at a hearing they scheduled for Monday.
The state’s attorney’s office did clarify which “emerging evidence” led it to dismiss the charges. It came, though, after video surfaced over the weekend that appeared to show Jeremy Brown, the man who was killed, punching Hood immediately before he was shot on June 18.
The video, widely distributed on social media, was apparently shot by a bystander and does not show the actual shooting. But the incident was also captured by high-definition surveillance cameras, officials said.
(The Sun-Times Media Wire contributed to this report.)
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