Three days after attorneys for the family of Dexter Reed, the man fatally shot by Chicago police after he opened fire on an officer during a traffic stop, reached a tentative settlement with the city late last year, Reed’s brother was arrested in a separate traffic stop for allegedly possessing a gun.
The City Council ultimately rejected the proposed $1.25 million settlement, and the civil lawsuit remains unresolved. But, Dexter’s younger brother, Julius, recently resolved his own legal problems by pleading guilty to a felony gun charge in exchange for two years of probation, court records show.
According to a Chicago police report, officers assigned to patrol the neighborhood around the United Center during the Juice WRLD Day concert on November 30, 2023, noticed smoke coming from a white Dodge Durango parked in the 100 block of North Wolcott.
They reported seeing the silhouette of the passenger taking a hit from a “hand-rolled cigar.” Based on their experience, the officers wrote, they believed they had witnessed “hotboxing,” or smoking cannabis inside a closed vehicle to intensify the drug’s effects…