Derren Sorrells admitted to shooting at a 25-year-old man who was the intended target in a video-taped statement, according to papers filed by prosecutors in court.
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The family has also established a trust fund to aid the four children that Aldridge was forced to leave behind. He has 6 felony arrests in his background and prior contacts with cpd. Darwin Sorrells was sentenced to six years in prison in January 2013 on a gun charge and was released early on parole.
At the same time, an unidentified driver was dropping someone off at the nearby Parkway Gardens apartments when the Sorells brothers began to chase and shoot at him, police said. “This reprehensible act of violence is the example of why we need to change the way we treat habitual offenders in the city of Chicago”. “When will enough be enough?”
“When Nykea Aldridge registered her child at school on Friday afternoon she wasn’t aware that shed be the subject of national headlines just hours later”, Johnson said. That is more than the number of guns recovered in the two larger cities of NY and Los Angeles combined, he said. Homicides were up almost 50% for the first half of 2016 compared to the same period a year ago. “We ought to be extending our sympathy to the family – that’s the only reaction that is appropriate right now, and maybe a sadness about this gun violence issue, which we know is complicated”, Kaine said. The list includes about 1,400 individuals.
Those two men have been arrested and charged in the shooting of Aldridge, according to USA Today. Authorities have said it’s possible the bullet that killed her was sacked during a robbery attempt involving a driver for Uber. He added that the city has gotten very good at predicting who will be the perpetrators and the victims of gun violence.
Wade, who grew up on the city’s South Side, has been outspoken over the years about the violence in his hometown.
Dwyane Wade’s mother, Jolinda Wade, a senior pastor of New Creation Binding and Loosing Ministry in Chicago, spoke on the importance of helping young men, such as the offenders, to transform their minds and find a better direction with their lives.
Two brothers were charged with first-degree murder in connection with the homicide of Nykea Aldridge, Dwyane Wade’s cousin. “Unreal”, Wade said in a post on Twitter.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump used the devastating news to try and boost his viewing in the African-American community with a series of tweets.
26, left, and Derren Sorrells, 22, were charged in the killing of Nykea Aldridge, a cousin of Chicago Bull Dwyane Wade. “Just what I’ve been saying”.
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Wade also tweeted Saturday morning: “The city of Chicago is hurting”.
