Chicago police used license plate reader technology to quickly locate witnesses and then make an arrest in the completely random murder of a Divvy bike rider in Grant Park last week, prosecutors said as they charged a 19-year-old man with the murder.
According to prosecutors, Eliel Argudo-Tenorio was part of a birthday gathering that began at a Chicago residence before a six-car caravan traveled to the 300 block of East Jackson Drive in Grant Park late on June 15. The group parked in a line along the curb, got out of their vehicles, and drank alcohol, prosecutors said. Surveillance footage reviewed by investigators captured the events that followed.
About 30 minutes after the group arrived, Malik Jones, 27, turned his Divvy bike off Lake Shore Drive onto Jackson and headed toward the group. Prosecutors said Jones had no connection to anyone at the party. Video footage allegedly showed Argudo retrieving a handgun from the front passenger window of a vehicle in the caravan moments later. Prosecutors said he immediately pointed the weapon at Jones as the cyclist rode away and looked back toward the group…