CHICAGO _ Murder charges have been filed against a 19-year-old man in the death of 11-year-old Takiya Holmes, one of three young children shot in Chicago in three days.
Antwan C. Jones was charged around 2 a.m. Wednesday, according to chief police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi.
Takiya was sitting in a parked car outside a dry cleaners in the 6500 block of South King Drive about 7:40 p.m. Saturday when someone fired shots, hitting her in the back of the head, police said. Her younger brother, her mother and her aunt were also in the car but were not hurt.
Takiya was shot in the head and died Tuesday morning at Comer Children's Hospital without regaining consciousness.
Information about how detectives tied Jones to the shooting was not immediately available. He has at least three prior arrests in Cook County, according to court records. Most recently, he was charged this past November with two counts of domestic battery and a count of criminal damage to property. An order of protection was later issued in the case.
Last September, Jones was charged with aggravated assault of a teacher, according to court records. In 2015, he was charged with reckless conduct.
About 30 minutes before Takiya was shot, 12-year-old Kanari Gentry Bowers was also struck in the head by a stray bullet about 4 miles away, outside her elementary school near 57th Street and Winchester Avenue in the West Englewood neighborhood.
Police said she remains in critical condition and on life support at Stroger Hospital.
Tuesday afternoon, 2-year-old Lavontay White was gunned down while riding in the back seat of a car on the West Side _ an attack captured on Facebook Live.
The boy's 26-year-old uncle was killed and the uncle's pregnant girlfriend was wounded.
