CHICAGO — A South Side man was charged with first-degree murder on Thursday for allegedly shooting to death a Jesse White tumbler.
Quinton Evans, 19, of the 7900 block of South Stony Island Avenue, was charged with one count of murder, one count of misdemeanor criminal trespass to state land and another count of misdemeanor criminal trespass to property.
Judge Laura Sullivan ordered Evans held on $1 million bail at a court hearing Wednesday.
Evans was arrested for trespassing on Monday and during an investigation police learned he was wanted for allegedly shooting and killing a 16-year-old Devonshay Lofton last Thursday, officials said.
Devonshay was hanging out with friends on the sidewalk in the 1300 block of North Cleveland Avenue when Evans and another man rode up on bikes, court documents state. The two allegedly pulled out semi-automatic weapons and began firing. Devonshay was hit in the upper torso and taken to Northwestern Hospital, where he later died, police said.
The two offenders fled the scene on bike, but were chased by nearby police. They dropped their bikes and fled on foot, and Evans jumped under an SUV, documents state. A police officer accidentally fired his weapon, striking his own foot, and Evans was able to escape, documents state.
Police allegedly found a semi-automatic weapon under the SUV, and ballistics tests on shell casings recovered from the scene matched the recovered weapon, documents state.
Family, friends and Secretary of State Jesse White mourned Devonshay last week.
"If I could put [Devonshay] on the Xerox machine and make 10,000 copies, the world would be a better place," said White, who founded the tumbling team Lofton was part of.
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