April 19--A 17-year-old boy fatally shot a 25-year-old man last month in a "drug deal that had gone bad," prosecutors said Saturday.
Lamonte Mobley, 17, was going to sell marijuana to 25-year-old Quentin Thompson in the 8800 block of South Cottage Grove Avenue about 9 a.m. March 28 when the shooting took place, prosecutors said. Mobley was ordered held without bail in a hearing before Cook County Judge Peggy Chiampas on Saturday.
That morning, Thompson went into a store near 89th Street and Cottage Grove and asked someone about where to buy marijuana, prosecutors said. The person he talked to told Thompson to see Mobley and another person with Mobley, and Thompson left the store and went up to them to ask about buying marijuana, prosecutors said.
The person with Mobley punched Thompson, then Mobley pulled out a handgun and shot Thompson in the neck, prosecutors said.
Thompson fell to the ground paralyzed, and then the other attacker rifled through Thompson's pockets and stole some cash, prosecutors said. Both attackers fled, prosecutors said.
Thompson, who never regained consciousness, died April 3 at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, prosecutors said.
Chicago detectives located surveillance footage showing both attackers at a store across the street minutes before they met Thompson. Another recording captured the slaying, prosecutors said, and witnesses identified Mobley.
Detectives obtained a murder warrant for Mobley, who fled to Dubuque, Iowa, but was arrested on another charge. While in custody in Iowa, he called friends and family and said he had pulled the trigger and that "this was a drug deal that had gone bad," prosecutors said.
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