A 35-year-old man has been charged with murder after prosecutors said he murdered 18-year-old Kaleb Williams, wounded another 18-year-old man, and then came back to steal Williams’ backpack during a chaotic night on Chicago’s West Side. The shooting came two hours after a mass shooting claimed six victims at a massive street gathering nearby, which Williams and his friends had also attended.
According to a detention petition filed by prosecutors, Williams, the second victim, and several friends had attended a massive social media–promoted street party in the early hours of August 10, near the 100 block of North Lacrosse Avenue. Around 2:48 a.m., gunfire erupted at that gathering, leaving six people shot, including a 22-year-old woman who died. The party was just a couple of blocks from where Williams was later killed.
Roughly two hours later, just after 5 a.m., Williams and his friends were heading home, walking south on Lavergne Avenue across Maypole when Owens arrived in a white Toyota Camry registered to him, the petition said. He allegedly got out of the car, struck up a conversation with Williams’ group about damage that had been done to his sunroof. Owens then pulled a handgun and ordered the group to drop their backpacks, according to prosecutors…