A South Side woman accused of fatally shooting her young son during an apparent mental health emergency in 2021 was acquitted of murder charges by reason of insanity earlier this month, according to court documents.
Fallon C. Harris, 40, was acquitted of six counts of first-degree murder by Judge Thomas J. Byrne on Sept. 19 in connection to the death of her son Kaden Harris-Ingram, according to court records. A report of mental disability adjudication submitted to the court and signed by Byrne indicated that Harris was incompetent to stand trial in a criminal case.
The judge also ordered the former city worker to be transferred to a secure Illinois Department of Human Services facility for inpatient evaluation and treatment, records show. Harris, formerly of the South Chicago neighborhood, remained housed at Cook County Jail as of Saturday evening.
Harris had been in custody since September 2021 and was charged the day after prosecutors said she confronted her 12-year-old son at gunpoint inside their home in the in the 8000 block of South Bennett Avenue.