South Side killer was on pretrial release for felony gun case, prosecutors say

A man who skipped court in a felony gun case shot and killed another man before authorities caught up with him four months later, officials now say.

Keyante Campbell, 20, was found shot inside a car in the 7200 block of South Sangamon Street at about 7 p.m. on April 13, 2024. In the immediate aftermath of the shooting, Campbell’s mother, Courtney Watson, described the chaos in a GoFundMe campaign created before her son died.

“Literally five minutes from home he was shot in the head,” Watson wrote. “Due to the ShotSpotter, CPD found my son in the middle of the street slumped over the middle console of our family car with our vehicle still in drive.”…

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