CHICAGO (CBS) — A 19-year-old man has been charged with the capturing and theft of 23-year-old culinary pupil Dakotah Earley earlier this month, in addition to 4 different armed robberies.
Tyshon Brownlee, of Oak Park, is charged with one depend of tried homicide and 5 counts of armed theft. He was ordered held with out bail at a bond listening to Tuesday afternoon. He’s due again in courtroom on Might 25 on the Skokie courthouse.
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“In these cases involving this defendant, now we have 5 harmless victims, and a neighborhood that has been terrorized,” Cook dinner County State’s Lawyer Kim Foxx mentioned Tuesday morning at a press convention at Chicago Police headquarters.
In line with the costs, Brownlee shot Earley 3 times after robbing him of his cellphone on Might 6 on the 1300 block of West Webster Avenue.
The capturing was caught on surveillance video, which reveals the person who shot Earley getting out of a white sedan that had simply rounded the nook of Wayne and Webster avenues and hiding behind the wall of a constructing — peeking across the nook as Earley walked down the road.
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As Earley approached the nook, the robber got here out of hiding and pointed his gun at him. Earley gave the person his bag, then grabbed for the gun, and each fell to the bottom as they struggled over the gun.
A second robber with a gun rushed up; and as Earley was combating the primary robber, one in every of them will be heard demanding the passcode to his telephone. Then the primary robber shot Earley and took his cellphone.
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As Earley was mendacity on the bottom, the robber once more requested him for his passcode earlier than capturing him a second time. After asking the sufferer for his passcode once more, Earley advised him some numbers earlier than screaming in ache, and the robber shot him a 3rd time whereas he was nonetheless mendacity on the street.
Brownlee is also charged with 4 different armed robberies on Might 5 and 6 in Lincoln Park and Lakeview.
Cook dinner County prosecutors mentioned, round 10 pm. on Might 5, about 5 hours earlier than Earley was shot, Brownlee robbed a lady who was strolling on the 1100 block of West Barry Avenue whereas carrying headphones, stealing her purse, telephone, and headphones, and demanding her telephone’s passcode at gunpoint.
Brownlee then walked throughout the road and robbed a second lady, who was additionally strolling together with her headphones on, and took her telephone, and demanded the passcode, prosecutors mentioned. When she gave him the improper passcode, Brownlee took the headphones off her head, and fled the scene in a stolen white BMW sedan.
Prosecutors mentioned Brownlee hacked into one sufferer’s iCloud account, made modifications on her social media web page, and stole cash from her Venmo account.
About half an hour after these robberies, Brownlee approached a person on the 2900 block of North Racine Avenue, pointed a gun at his chest, and demanded his telephone and passcode, telling the sufferer he would “come again and pop” him if his code didn’t work. Brownlee later used that sufferer’s debit card at a gasoline station.
Then, simply moments earlier than Brownlee shot Earley, prosecutors mentioned he robbed a DePaul College pupil at gunpoint within the 1100 block of West Fullerton Avenue, taking the sufferer’s cellphone and pockets, earlier than fleeing the scene in a white automobile.
Chicago Police Supt. David Brown mentioned Brownlee was arrested at his dwelling on Sunday, after police recognized him because the shooter, due to surveillance video footage, and an examination of current crime patterns within the space of the capturing.
Chicago Police Chief of Detectives Brendan Deenihan mentioned Brownlee admitted to capturing Earley, though Deenihan declined to take a position on why Brownlee shot Earley when he didn’t fireplace a gun in any of the opposite robberies.
“You’ll be able to nearly hear on the video, he takes the sufferer’s telephone, then he begins asking for the passcode,” Deenihan mentioned. “I am unable to inform you particularly is that the rationale. Clearly the sufferer on this case fought again. I imply, it was his preliminary intuition. You guys can see on the video, his preliminary instincts are to combat again, after which it instantly results in this capturing.”
Deenihan mentioned Brownlee used a bank card belonging to one of many victims of his theft spree, which helped detectives observe him down.
After figuring out Brownlee as a suspect within the capturing of Earley, detectives discovered Brownlee himself had been shot on Might 10 whereas driving in a automobile on Michigan Avenue close to Millennium Park.
Detectives went to the hospital to attempt to query Brownlee, “however he had left the hospital as rapidly as attainable, most likely understanding what was occurring as properly,” so police weren’t capable of arrest him till a number of days later after one other theft sufferer recognized him.
Brown mentioned detectives are nonetheless working to establish anybody else concerned within the theft spree.
“We’ll hold working to carry everybody concerned accountable,” Brown mentioned. “We can’t cease investigating till every of those offenders are discovered.”
Brownlee is because of seem in bond courtroom at midday.
At a neighborhood security assembly Monday evening, Ald. Brian Hopkins (2nd Ward) mentioned a 19-year-old suspect who was being questioned in Earley’s capturing “has 5 carjacking arrests on his report within the final two years,” though Hopkins didn’t establish the suspect by title.
Brown mentioned Tuesday the tried homicide and armed theft fees are Brownlee’s first arrests as an grownup. Any juvenile arrests or fees wouldn’t be open to the general public.
Earley was strolling on Wayne Avenue close to Webster Avenue round 3 a.m. on Might 6 when one in every of two robbers got here out of hiding and pointed a gun at him. After giving the offender his bag, Earley reached for the gun, and each fell to the bottom as they struggled over the gun. He was shot 3 times whereas robbers requested for his cellphone password.
He was taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Heart in vital situation with two gunshot wounds to the again, and one gunshot wound to the top — leading to partial lack of his colon. His household has reported he has proven indicators of enchancment over the previous a number of days.
Hopkins confirmed Earley is out of the coma, respiratory on his personal and may talk with hand alerts.
“He continues to combat for his life at Illinois Masonic Hospital. The rationale I get emotional is I speak to his mom on a regular basis since this incident occurred,” Hopkins mentioned. “She’s fairly a lady. We pray collectively and I attempted to do the most effective I might to encourage her and hold her spirits up, however one factor I am unable to do is clarify why this occurred. And I am unable to inform her the disgrace my neighborhood feels that this was allowed to happen on our stunning manicured streets that we’re so pleased with. Its simply heartbreaking. I do know we won’t reside this manner.”
At Brownlee’s bond listening to, his public defender mentioned the 19-year-old lives together with his mom in Chicago, and graduated from North Lawndale School Prep Excessive College in 2020, and now works at a Jewel-Osco retailer.
