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CWB Chicago reported Wednesday that more than a year after a judge signed an arrest warrant for 32-year-old Darrius Wilson, a suspect authorities wanted to capture regarding a road rage shooting in December, he was found and arrested in Florida. However, when officials extradited Wilson back to Chicago a Cook County judge decided to release him again, the outlet said. In regard to the alleged road rage incident, the CWB Chicago report said a victim was driving to work when a car nearly hit him. The car eventually pulled up next to his vehicle and the victim claimed he heard what he believed to be two gunshots. The victim saw a pair of “bullet defects” in his vehicle when he arrived at work. While investigating the case, license plate reader data and surveillance footage reportedly helped officers identify Wilson’s Dodge Challenger. Authorities said surveillance footage shows the suspect, who uses a wheelchair, being helped into the vehicle a few minutes before the shooting occurred. “Wilson, charged with aggravated discharge of a firearm, has been convicted of firearms-related crimes four times, prosecutors said,” per the CWB Chicago report. Following his arrest a few days after the incident, the suspect reportedly refused to answer officials’ questions about the case and was let go. A judge then signed a local arrest warrant for the man, but days later another judge signed a nationwide one in hopes of catching him, the CWB Chicago report said. The outlet noted the officials with the FBI Violent Crimes Fugitive Task Force located him in Ruskin, Florida. “Cook County officials flew him back to Chicago and brought him before Judge David Kelly for a detention hearing,” the CWB Chicago report continued: “After hearing from prosecutors and Wilson’s attorney, Kelly refused to keep Wilson in custody. He also didn’t put him on the sheriff’s electronic monitoring program. Instead, he sent him home with orders to stay in the house at night,” the outlet said, noting he is scheduled to appear in court on January 26. In September, Illinois became the first state to eliminate cash bail. Posted by: Skidmark 2024-01-21 |
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