CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) — Chicago police were called to a familiar place Saturday night after a shooting that left one man dead and two women injured.
According to police, just before 9 p.m. Saturday, local drill rapper Londre Sylvester, 31, and a woman were walking in the 2700 block of West California Boulevard, when two people got out of a car and began firing in an apparent ambush after Sylvester was released from the Cook County Jail on electronic monitoring.
Sylvester was struck in the face and chest and taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, police said. According to the Tribune, which obtained a police report, Sylvester suffered as many as 64 bullet wounds to his head and other parts of his body.
The woman, 60, was struck in the knee and taken to Stroger Hospital, where she was listed in good condition.
Police said a 35-year-old woman nearby suffered a graze wound to the face. She was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital and was also listed in good condition.
Court records indicate Sylvester’s fianacé had put up $5,000 on Friday to secure his release on charges of violating a previous bond in a 2020 gun case.
It was not clear why Sylvester did not walk out of the jail until the next day, or how the gunmen knew he would be leaving then. The Cook County sheriff’s office deferred comment to the Chicago Police Department, which declined to release any more details of the attack.
Police reports identified Sylvester as a member of the Lakeside faction of the Gangster Disciples, and mugshots show he had the words “Kill To Survive” tattooed on his neck beneath what appeared to be a gun sight.
Dozens of yellow, numbered evidence markers — typically used to denote the location of shell casings— stood massed on South California Avenue as police combed the street in a light rain Saturday. A bloody shirt lay on the sidewalk that led to the exit where prisoners are released from the sprawling jail complex.
Another woman visiting a detainee told the Chicago Sun-Times she would have been at the spot near the entrance had she not stopped to talk to a friend.
Court records indicate Sylvester had been jailed in June for violating conditions of his bond in the 2020 gun case, but had been living under house arrest since last December with a GPS monitoring device.
A judge had granted him four hours each Thursday to leave the house to run errands, but sheriff’s officials claimed he’d violated those conditions by visiting “various locations in Chicago and Wisconsin” on June 11.
Sylvester’s public defender called for a bond hearing, claiming Sylvester was arrested June 11 “after running errands during the allotted time on the allotted day of the week.” Judge Lawrence Flood set bond at $50,000, requiring a deposit of $5,000.
The gun case stemmed from an April 2020 arrest when someone reported Sylvester carrying a gun in his car in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood. Officers spotted Sylvester behind the wheel of a white Jaguar sedan, parked beside a pump at gas station in the 8200 block of South Halsted, according to a police report.
When they approached the car, officers saw that Sylvester, who was on parole for a 2015 gun conviction, had a 9mm Glock pistol in his lap.
One of the officers tried to grab the gun from Sylvester as Sylvester put the car in gear, the report states. Two officers struggled with Sylvester and wrestled him out of the car.
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