An FBI task force was not playing games when it was time to take down the man wanted for a three-year-old murder on the Dan Ryan Expressway last week.
Video obtained by 312Watch showed federal agents closing in on a white SUV in the Jewel-Osco parking lot, 1224 South Wabash, shortly after midnight on April 24. Ultimately, a black SUV operated by task force agents met the SUV head-on and pushed it into parked cars while a second federal SUV slammed into the white car’s driver’s door.
A guy got out of the white SUV and tried to escape, but heavily armed task force officers were more than ready to defeat those efforts. Check out the video:
Now we know who the arrested man is: 33-year-old Demario Bass. He was wanted for the murder of a 27-year-old mother who was shot as she drove on the inbound Dan Ryan Expressway on May 21, 2022.
Around 8:10 p.m. that night, Darren Jackson called 911 to report that she was being followed as she drove alone in her gray Hyundai. At the 47th Street ramp, another driver fired six shots into her car, striking her in the head and taking her life, officials said.
Illinois State Police investigators turned their attention to Bass after they identified the gunman’s car and some of Jackson’s relatives revealed that Bass was known to drive the vehicle, according to court filings.
Detectives obtained “extensive search warrants” for phone providers that allowed them to prove that Bass was in the shooter’s car before, during, and after the murder, the filings said. Data from license plate readers and video footage also played key roles in the investigation.
When Judge Mary Marubio ordered Bass jailed pending trial, she cited his attempts to evade the federal task force as one reason that she felt he should not be put back on the streets.
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