Suspect at an apartment before allegedly fleeing Chicago police
Staff report
A shooting at a west side Chicago McDonald’s drive-thru that left a 7-year-old Chicago girl, Jaslyn Adams, dead and her father, Jontae Adams, wounded on April 18 made national headlines.
Devontay Anderson, 21, one of three suspects allegedly involved in the shooting, has been charged with first-degree murder, but is believed to have fled Illinois and remains at-large.
However, the other two suspects are in custody. Demond Gouty, 21 and Marion Lewis, 18, have been charged with first-degree murder and attempted murder and are being held without bond.
According to Cook County prosecutors, surveillance video at the McDonald’s showed a silver Audi pull up behind Adams’ car. Two men with hoodies covering their faces, alleged to be Anderson and Gouty, jumped out of the Audi and shot into Adams’ vehicle before getting back into the Audi. Lewis was allegedly driving the Audi.
Jaslyn was shot multiple times and pronounced dead at Stroger Hospital of Cook County, while Adams was shot in the abdomen and survived.
Lewis was the first suspect arrested on April 22, and the process of bringing Lewis to justice took Chicago undercover police officers into Lombard at one point that day.
According to CBS Channel 2, officers tracked Lewis through the suspect’s Facebook account to an apartment complex in Lombard where a female acquaintance of Lewis’ was living. A silver Audi outside the apartment matched one that Lewis posted to a social media video before the shooting. That silver Audi also matched the vehicle picked up on surveillance at the McDonalds drive-thru where Jaslyn was shot.
Chicago police said Lewis exited the apartment, got into a Dodge Durango that was allegedly stolen and fled from Chicago undercover police officers who were outside the apartment.
Police said that led to a high-speed chase eastbound on Roosevelt Road through Lombard, Villa Park and Oakbrook Terrace, and then onto the eastbound Eisenhower Expressway.
The suspect reportedly crashed the Durango into a median on the Eisenhower near Mannheim Road, but then police said Lewis ran from the scene and attempted to carjack an SUV with a family inside. Police arrived, and an officer fired on Lewis, wounding Lewis on the left shoulder. Lewis was removed from the vehicle, was treated for the wound and arrested.
Afterward, the eastbound Eisenhower was closed between Mannheim and 25th Avenue for around five hours.
Police Chief Roy Newton said the Lombard Police Department was not directly involved in either the chase that ensued on Roosevelt Road or apprehending Lewis. He did say Chicago police notified the Lombard Police Department, telling Newton that officers were going to sit outside the apartment, wait for Lewis to come out and then try to take him into custody.
“He (Lewis) went into an apartment here, whether it was to hide out or what,” Newton said. “Chicago police, through their intel network, knew he was here and they notified us. When he (Lewis) came out (of the apartment), he ran to a car, got in and took off.”
Newton said Lombard police assisted the Chicago Police Department in searching the apartment after Chicago police obtained a search warrant.
