Nov. 14--An 18-year-old man who was ordered held without bail Friday was trying to shoot rival gang members when he fatally wounded a 14-year-old on the West Side last year, prosecutors said.
Judge Maria Kuriakos Ciesil denied setting bail for Michael Anderson, in part, because he was "making facial expressions'' that indicated he didn't care while he was standing before her during a hearing at the Leighton Criminal Court Building.
Anderson, of the 3100 block of West Madison Street, is charged with murder, according to Cook County Asst. State's Attorney's office spokeswoman Tandra Simonton. He was already in the custody of the department of corrections on an unrelated aggravated unlawful use of a weapons conviction, she added.
Marcus McCarty, 14, was killed in the Aug. 24, 2014 attack in the 1100 block of North LeClaire Avenue in the city's Austin neighborhood, according to Cook County Assistant State's Atty. Robert Kline.
Anderson was inside a vehicle about 2:50 p.m. that day when they passed Marcus who was walking with several other people. The vehicle stopped in an alley and Anderson got out, walked over to them and fired a gun at the group, Kline said.
Marcus was hit once in the abdomen and once in the back and died of those injuries.
Anderson then ran back into same vehicle and fled the scene with a gun, according to Kline, who said several people identified Anderson as the person they saw walking in the direction of the where the shooting happened.
The witnesses heard gunshots and then saw Anderson running back to the same vehicle with a gun, according to Kline.
Anderson admitted that he wanted to shoot at people who he thought were rival gang members that afternoon and that Marcus was the "last one there'' and Anderson shot him, Kline said.
Marcus, of the 1000 block of North Leclaire Avenue, was taken to John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County in critical condition where he was pronounced dead at 3:56 p.m., according to police and the Cook County medical examiner's office.
Prosecutors said that besides the 15-month sentence Anderson was currently serving for the prior aggravated unlawful use of a weapon conviction, he also has a 2014 possession of a controlled substance conviction for which he was given 30 days in a juvenile detention facility.
Other convictions include a 2013 possession of a stolen motor vehicle, another possession of a controlled substance conviction in 2012, and an attempted aggravated robbery that also was from 2012 and which was pleaded down from an attempted armed robbery charge Kline said.
Chicago Tribune reporter Steve Schmadeke contributed to this report.
