Prosecutors on Saturday will detail a brutal, deadly crime spree, saying that an 18-year-old man and his 17-year-old accomplice traveled from Boystown to the Far South Side in the early morning hours of February 11, killing two men for no apparent reason as they carjacked and robbed victims across Chicago.
The juvenile has not yet been identified; however, the man is Marquese Hill, who currently lists a home address in the 3600 block of South Martin Luther King Drive, but as recently as December gave police a home address in Rogers Park. (Update: Court records identify the juvenile as Marshawn Sanders.)
Roughly 36 hours before the alleged murder and hijacking spree began, prosecutors dropped a felony case Hill faced after Skokie police said they found him with three grams of crack cocaine while riding in a stolen car on December 14, CWB Chicago reported on Friday. The Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office did not respond to an email seeking an explanation for the dropped charges…