A 35-year-old Chicago man has been handed a 13-year sentence for shooting and killing a man on the Eisenhower Expressway while he was on bail for an attempted murder case. He got another four years for a DUI, which he also got while on bail for the attempted murder charge.
According to court records, Antwan Carter posted a $10,000 cash deposit in August 2020 to be released from custody in a 2018 attempted murder case. He had been held in jail for nearly two years, but a judge granted a motion to reduce his bond due to concerns about the spread of COVID-19 in the Cook County Jail during the pandemic’s early days.
Ten months later, Carter and his fiancée, Ashley Hardrick, came to police attention after a car crash near the 1000 block of North California Avenue in Humboldt Park. Witnesses reported seeing a man and a woman walk away from the wreck. Around the same time, Hardrick called 911 to report her car stolen, prosecutors claimed. Police stopped the pair a block away…