A South Side man who was 17 when he gunned down a stranger after a brief shoulder bump outside an Avalon Park gas station in 2021 has been sentenced to 65 years in prison, concluding a case that stretched across nearly four years of litigation, a jury trial, and post-trial filings.
Jaebrel Miles already had a juvenile felony gun case pending when he killed 26-year-old Jeffrey King on the late morning of May 28, 2021, prosecutors said. Miles and a friend had walked to a gas station in the 8300 block of South Stony Island to get snacks around 11:30 a.m.
As they headed back toward a nearby house where they had been hanging out, King bumped into the friend on the sidewalk. Prosecutors said the men exchanged words but went their separate ways and King entered the gas station…