More than a year after a judge signed an arrest warrant for a man wanted in connection with a road rage shooting on a Chicago expressway, an FBI task force arrested him in Florida. The Cook County Sheriff’s Police Department extradited him to Chicago. During his first court appearance, a Cook County judge rejected the state’s detention petition and released him again. The man, charged with aggravated discharge of a firearm, has been convicted of firearms-related crimes four times, prosecutors said.
1. Darrius Wilson apparently shoots at a car after its driver honked at him. 2. Illinois State Police locate his car and video of him getting into it eight minutes before the shooting. 3. Police arrest Wilson, who has four gun-related convictions, and he refuses to answer questions. 4. Wilson is released. 5. FBI locates Wilson in FL. 6. Cook County flies Wilson to Chicago. 7. Judge David Kelly refuses to detain Wilson, or put him on electronic monitoring. Judge Kelly releases him with orders to stay home at night. Taxpayers paid big bucks for all this “law enforcement” activity,… Read more »
Daskoterzar
2 years ago
Can anyone provide any explanation of reasoning as to why this chain of events makes any logical sense? It’s like our world has decided that its a Seinfeld episode – George does the opposite…
Ex Illini
2 years ago
This is unbelievable. FBI finds and arrests him, we extradite the loser and one of Judge Tim’s geniuses releases the guy. Thanks for bringing him back to terrorize Illinois!
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
1. Darrius Wilson apparently shoots at a car after its driver honked at him. 2. Illinois State Police locate his car and video of him getting into it eight minutes before the shooting. 3. Police arrest Wilson, who has four gun-related convictions, and he refuses to answer questions. 4. Wilson is released. 5. FBI locates Wilson in FL. 6. Cook County flies Wilson to Chicago. 7. Judge David Kelly refuses to detain Wilson, or put him on electronic monitoring. Judge Kelly releases him with orders to stay home at night. Taxpayers paid big bucks for all this “law enforcement” activity,… Read more »
Can anyone provide any explanation of reasoning as to why this chain of events makes any logical sense? It’s like our world has decided that its a Seinfeld episode – George does the opposite…
This is unbelievable. FBI finds and arrests him, we extradite the loser and one of Judge Tim’s geniuses releases the guy. Thanks for bringing him back to terrorize Illinois!