(WBBM NEWSRADIO) — Chicago police say they've arrested a second person in a shooting in the Loop that killed two teenage boys more than a year ago.
Prosecutors have filed murder charges against 20-year-old James Allison in the broad-daylight shooting at Wabash and Madison back in January of 2024 that killed two boys aged 16 and 17, and injured a 25-year-old woman.
Allison is charged with two counts of first-degree murder and one count each of attempted murder, aggravated discharge of a firearm and unlawful use of a weapon.
Allison is set to appear in detention court on Wednesday.
Last week, Tommie Coleman, 22, was arrested in connection to the shooting.
Coleman is charged with two counts of first-degree murder and one count each of attempted murder, aggravated discharge of a firearm and unlawful use of a weapon by a convicted felon.
The night of the shooting, Chicago police received a tip from one of the victims’ mothers that a student at the school had sent her videos Coleman and others had posted on Instagram of them wearing masks and riding in the SUV before and after the shooting, at one point singing about wearing masks and shooting someone, prosecutors said.
The videos were obtained through search warrants, and a witness of the shooting identified the student who was in the SUV.
Coleman’s attorney argued the videos hadn’t been offered up to the defense and that the witnesses had known and identified the uncharged student, not Coleman. She pointed out witnesses ran for cover during the “chaotic incident,” and no one had identified Coleman in the car.
“We haven’t seen any of these videos that connect my client,” public defender Erica Green said. “There is very little physical evidence.”
Coleman was previously convicted of unlawful use of a weapon by a felon in DuPage County, for which he was sentenced to two years, and has pending warrants on an auto theft and possession of a machine gun out of Lake County, Indiana, prosecutors said. He also has a trespass to vehicle in Chicago.
Coleman is due back in court Wednesday.
Prosecutors also say that a third suspect died in June 2024.
The Sun-Time Media Wire contributed to this report.
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