COOK COUNTY CRIMINAL COURTHOUSE — A second man has been charged in the April 2014 murder of Simeon Career Academy athlete Michael Flournoy.
The high school sophomore was visiting cousins in Burnside on April 5, 2014, when he decided to grab a snack from a corner store about 8 p.m., authorities said.
Flournoy, 16, never made it home. He was gunned down in the 1000 block of East 93rd Street.
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Kenneth Jackson, now 33, was charged that July with first-degree murder. According to prosecutors, Jackson and two accomplices beat and fatally shot Flournoy after the teen or one of his friends said something to Jackson's then 12-year-old daughter.
Alleged accomplice Kevin Hines, 35, was arrested this week and charged with first-degree murder.
Kenneth Jackson (l.) and Kevin Hines (r.) are charged with first-degree murder. Photo: Chicago Police Department; Cook County Sheriff's Office
According to prosecutors, witnesses overheard Jackson yelling at Flournoy the evening he was killed because Jackson believed either Flournoy or one of his friends made inappropriate comments to Jackson's 12-year-old daughter.
Jackson left the area and returned 90 minutes later with Hines and an unidentified accomplice in tow, Assistant State's Attorney Marilyn Salas-Wail said during a bond hearing Thursday.
The trio beat Flournoy before Hines eventually pulled out a gun and shot the 16-year-old in his head, prosecutors said.
Surveillance footage captures Jackson, Hines and their accomplice exiting a Chevrolet Malibu and walking out of view of the camera before running back to the car and speeding off, prosecutors said.
According to Salas-Wail, Hines confessed to beating and shooting Flournoy. He allegedly told police the gun belonged to Jackson.
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Cook County Judge Peggy Chiampas on Thursday ordered Hines held without bail.
After the 2014 shooting, relatives said Michael was a sophomore at Simeon Career Academy, 8147 S. Vincennes Ave., where he got good grades, played football and wrestled.
The teen was remembered as outgoing, considerate and sweet — a gentleman. He had an interview lined up for a summer job at Navy Pier and hoped to go away to college, family said.
"He was a great kid. ... And he thought he was God's gift to women," grandfather Samuel Woods said with a laugh. "He thought he was the most flirtiest, beautifulest man on this earth."
"Ooh, [girls] would swarm around him," grandmother Debra Woods added.
She later lamented how gang and gun culture had taken over her neighborhood: "We're at war out here. You can't walk free. And we live in America. We're supposed to be free. ... I just don't understand it. It makes you feel like a prisoner in your home. You can't even let your kids go outside and have fresh air."
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