And again..
Steven Hawthorne, 55, used a key to enter his 26-year-old ex-girlfriend’s South Side home around 1:40 a.m.
and shot her current boyfriend dead as he slept next to the woman,
Awakened by the gunshots, the woman’s young children, ages 5 and 3, ran to the living room to get help from a 63-year-old relative who also lived in the home. The man tried to get the children upstairs, but Hawthorne allegedly came up behind him on a stairwell and put a gun to his head, which they struggled to control.
Hawthorne fired two shots at the man, missing both times, but the victim pretended to be shot, and Hawthorne fled out the door in pursuit of his ex-girlfriend, McCord said.
He fired at least one shot at her, striking her in the arm, then sat on top of her and pistol-whipped her in the head repeatedly as a nearby Ring doorbell camera was recording, McCord continued.
The woman got away and flagged down a passing car, but the occupants kept moving when Hawthorne threatened them with a gun. McCord said the vehicle stopped momentarily to pick up the woman’s two daughters, who were walking down the street in their pajamas with no shoes.
“He shot Mommy,” they told the driver. People in the car called 911.
https://cwbchicago.com/2023/04/5-co...oring-for-gun-possession-prosecutors-say.html