A Chicago man will spend nearly three decades in prison after pleading guilty Monday to the murder of a cab driver who was yanked from his taxi and struck by a passing car during a carjacking on the South Side.
Darnell Ingram, 28, entered the plea in exchange for a 28-year sentence handed down by Cook County Judge Kenneth Wadas. Under state law, he must serve every day of that term before he is eligible for release.
Prosecutors say Ingram and an accomplice came across 45-year-old Don Otis sleeping in the driver’s seat of his cab in the 400 block of East 71st Street in the early morning hours of January 28, 2024. Surveillance video showed the men smashing the driver’s side window as Otis slept inside…