CHICAGO — Prosecutors have charged a man with shooting at a repo man’s tow truck as they traveled on a Far South Side expressway earlier this year.
Terrence Robinson’s phone location history played a key role in the investigation, according to court filings.
At about 1 a.m. on May 30, a repo man took possession of a Nissan Altima on the South Side and started driving toward the expressway. But he noticed that a red Chevy began following him and then tried to cut him off, police said in a case report.
The Chevy followed the tow truck onto outbound I-94, and the 31-year-old repo man decided to pull off at 111th Street to get away from it, the report continued. After reentering the highway, the tow truck once again wound up next to the Chevy as the vehicles neared 130th Street.
That’s when someone in the Chevy fired a shot at the tow truck, piercing its front quarter panel, the report said.
The tow truck’s dash camera recorded a “series of events” leading up to the shooting, one report stated. Officials said that investigators traced the car’s license plate to a woman who shares a child with Robinson.
Detectives executed a search warrant on the Chevy and allegedly found gunshot residue on its interior. Another warrant served on Robinson’s phone showed the device’s location tracked with the red Chevy before, during and after the shooting, investigators stated in a court filing.
Prosecutors asked Judge Deidre Dyer to detain Robinson, 37, on a charge of aggravated discharge of a firearm. Dyer chose not to grant the state’s petition and she sent Robinson home to await trial.
Original reporting you’ll see nowhere else, paid for by our readers. Click here to support our work.
