Juvenile Charged In Shooting Death Of 15-Year-Old Boy
CHICAGO (CBS) -- Chicago Police have filed charges against a 17-year-old boy in the fatal shooting of a 15-year-old boy Saturday on the South Side.
Demario Bailey, 15, was walking to basketball practice with his twin brother near 63rd and State Street when they were approached by a group of four men at around 12:40 p.m. They went for the teen's jacket and then one of them pulled out a gun and shot Demario in the chest. He was pronounced dead at the scene..
Prosecutors charged 17-year-old Carlos Johnson with first-degree murder, armed robbery, and attempted armed robbery. He was due in bond court Monday afternoon.
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Sources said police know the other three assailants in the shooting.
WBBM's Nancy Harty reports a small but passionate group of protesters stood near the intersection at 63rd and State Sunday afternoon carrying signs that said "All Lives Matter" mere feet from the spot where Bailey was killed.
The group was made up of mostly women who lost someone to gun violence. Pam Bosley still doesn't know who killed her son, Terrell, eight years ago. She wanted to know where are all the protesters who shut down parts of the Loop over police-involved shootings recently?
"Why shut that down? Let's shut down the South Side of Chicago where the killing is taking place," she said. "Why are we marching downtown? Let's march in our own community, go out here and get these people who murdered our children."
Demario was in the tenth grade at Johnson College Prep, according to the school. His and his twin brother's sixteenth birthday is Tuesday. Grief counselors were available at the school on Monday.
A memorial fund is raising money for Demario's family and has set up a website at youcaring.com.
