CHICAGO — A federal judge has sentenced a man to more than 14 years in prison for firing at least 14 shots during a failed carjacking and then successfully hijacking another car nearby. Anthony Blackburn, 22, was on felony pretrial release for another stolen vehicle case when he committed the crimes.
At 2:15 p.m. on November 16, 2020, a man was driving in the 4700 block of West Polk when another driver cut him off. Blackburn emerged from the other vehicle’s back seat with a handgun equipped with an auto-fire switch that could make it operate like a machine gun, prosecutors said.
Blackburn ran to the victim’s car and ordered him out at gunpoint. But the driver accelerated instead, and Blackburn unleashed a torrent of 14 shots at the fleeing vehicle. The victim was not shot, but bullets shattered his rear window and both driver’s side windows. A round struck a door handle, which shattered, and a fragment of the handle embedded in his arm…