(WBBM NEWSRADIO) — A man is charged with murder for his alleged role in a deadly shooting last year on the Eisenhower Expressway.
Dezhawn Seargent was driving an SUV the morning of Aug. 15 when someone inside Seargent’s SUV fired on another car which was traveling alongside on the expressway, Cook County prosecutors said.
The gunman was aiming for a rival gang member in the other car, but instead struck 19-year-old Lakasia Gregory in the head and leg on Interstate 290 near Central Avenue, prosecutors said. Another woman who was in the car was also shot.
Gregory was pronounced dead days later at Stroger Hospital, the Cook County medical examiner’s office said. The other woman survived.
Seargent had borrowed the SUV hours earlier and drove the gunmen to the block where the victims were hanging out, prosecutors said. When Gregory and the others got into their car and drove away, Seargent followed them onto the expressway.
After the shooting, Seargent dropped the SUV back to the person he borrowed it from, prosecutors said.
Seargent was taken into custody Wednesday. He appeared in court Thursday and was ordered held without bail.
He is due back in court July 8.
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