A man who police say shot another man in a Rogers Park alley last year has finally been charged with murder, more than a year after Chicago police detained him just 30 minutes after the killing.
Detectives arrested 32-year-old Valgas Etheard this week as he was being discharged from the downstate Lincoln Correctional Center, where he had been serving time for two felony counts of driving on a suspended license, according to state records.
Chicago police said Etheard has been identified as the gunman who fatally shot 31-year-old Terrell Fort in an alley behind the 2000 block of West Howard Street around 5:45 p.m. on September 5, 2024. Witnesses told police they saw a man calmly walking out of the alley moments after hearing gunfire…