Not too well, or so it seems to me. #38: Gunman shot 12-year-old boy in the head while on $1,000 bail for one of Illinois' most serious gun crimes - CWB Chicago
A three-time felon on bail for one of Illinois’ most serious gun crimes opened fire on a Chicago family’s birthday celebration, shooting a 12-year-old boy in the head this week, prosecutors said. Incredibly, a Cook County judge made Isaiah Renteria pay just $1,000 to get out of jail on a Class X armed habitual criminal charge in November and did not require him to go on to electronic monitoring.
On Friday, Renteria became the 38th person accused of killing or shooting—or attempting to kill or shoot—someone in Chicago while awaiting trial for a felony this year. The alleged crimes involved at least 76 victims, 18 of whom died.
The shooter has been convicted of unlawful use of a weapon (twice) and burglary (twice). In November he was charged as "being an armed habitual criminal and a felon in possession of a firearm."
Judge Barbara Dawkins ordered him to pay that $1,000 deposit to get out of jail. He returned home the next day.
Because keeping violent offenders in jail is unfair.
The 12-year-old was shot in the temple, but did not die. He remains in intensive care.
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