Oct. 07--A West Side man was denied bail Wednesday afternoon in an August shooting that fatally wounded two people in the city's Lawndale neighborhood.
Laquan King, 20, of the 1400 block of South Ridgeway Avenue, was charged earlier Wednesday with two counts of first-degree murder in the shooting deaths of Caprice McCollum Jr., 16, and Jerome Phelps, 19, police said.
Shortly before 10 p.m. Aug. 16, McCollum and Phelps were involved in a dice game in the 1600 block of South Springfield Avenue when King and another person approached the two teens. King, who was wearing a T-shirt covering his neck and the bottom part of his face, displayed a weapon and shot McCullom in the head, said prosecutors.
Phelps attempted to run away from the scene but stumbled and fell. The person who was with King then picked up Phelps' head and shot him multiple times. Prosecutors said Phelps had entrance wounds to the neck, shoulder area, ribcage, hip, buttocks and leg.
McCollum initially was taken in critical condition to Mount Sinai Hospital. Phelps was taken to Stroger Hospital where he was pronounced dead later that night, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner's office.
McCollum, of the 1800 block of South Avers Avenue, was pronounced dead two days after the shooting at Mount Sinai, officials said.
Phelp's younger brother who was at the dice game, and a witness at the scene, who had attended elementary school with King, both identified him in a photo array as McCulloms' killer, prosecutors said.
Cook County Judge Laura Sullivan ordered King held without bail Wednesday afternoon. The other shooter has not been located.
