CHICAGO (AP) - A Chicago man was charged with first-degree murder in the shooting deaths of two men during a weekend that saw six other people murdered in the city, Cook County prosecutors said Wednesday.
The motive for the shooting Sunday was not provided by prosecutors during Ladelle Carpenter’s bond hearing on Wednesday. Chicago police say Quincy Ferguson and Darren Sims, both 28, were shot several times as they sat in an SUV parked on the city’s West Side.
Prosecutors say private surveillance cameras captured Carpenter, 24, and an unidentified man getting out a vehicle, approaching the SUV Sims and Ferguson were sitting in, opening the doors and firing shots into the vehicle.
The shooters ran back to their vehicle and drove away. Prosecutors say Carpenter’s face was clear in surveillance video and vehicle the two suspects were observed in was registered to him. They also said he was wearing some of same clothing he was seen in on surveillance video when arrested Tuesday.
Defense attorney Frank Himmel did not provide information to the court about his client and argued there was not enough evidence presented by prosecutors to hold Carpenter without bail. Judge Susana Ortiz disagreed and denied Carpenter bail.
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