A Rogers Park man is being questioned in connection with the murder and carjacking of a man in Boystown on February 11 and the separate killing of another victim in the Oakland neighborhood less than an hour later, CWB Chicago has learned. Court records show the murders occurred barely 36 hours after prosecutors dropped a felony case the 18-year-old suspect was facing.
CWB Chicago is not naming the man because he has not yet been charged in connection with the murder and carjacking of Darwin Tirado, 22, shortly before 4 a.m. on February 11 in the 700 block of West Waveland Avenue, or the killing less than an hour later of Damon Kellum, 45, in the 3700 block of South Lake Park Avenue. However, multiple sources say charges are expected to be announced shortly.
We were first to report that Kellum was found in or near Tirado’s hijacked Hyundai Sonata, leading police to quickly link the two crimes. Two additional carjackings followed the murders, and Chicago Police Department sources initially believed those incidents were also connected to the slayings…