A 36-year-old man from Country Club Hills is facing a slate of felony charges after allegedly opening fire on a car full of people during a road rage incident on the Dan Ryan Expressway earlier this month, leaving two victims wounded.
Lamarkcus Ferguson is charged with five counts of attempted murder, two counts of aggravated battery by discharging a firearm, and five counts of aggravated discharge of a firearm.
The shooting happened around 2 p.m. on July 9 on the inbound Dan Ryan Expressway near 47th Street. According to Illinois State Police, troopers responded to reports of shots fired and found a Chevy Blazer riddled with bullet holes in the rear and passenger sides. Five men, all in their late teens, were inside the vehicle, two of whom had been shot.
The driver told police that a dark vehicle swerved into his lane from the express lane, slowed down, and pulled alongside his SUV, a police report said. The other driver rolled down his window, yelled at victims, and opened fire—discharging about 10 rounds before speeding toward downtown.
One of the injured men was critically wounded.
Investigators tracked down a witness who had been directly behind the gunman’s vehicle and saw a hand with a gun emerge from the driver’s side window and fire shots, the report said. Police later identified the suspect’s vehicle as a 2025 Hyundai Kona and placed the license plate in a law enforcement alert system.
Country Club Hills police stopped the car later the same day—July 21—and detained Ferguson, who was driving. The vehicle was registered to his passenger. Police allegedly recovered a 9mm handgun from Ferguson’s waistband, which investigators say matched shell casings recovered at the expressway shooting scene.
Judge Ankur Srivastava granted prosecutors’ request to detain Ferguson while he awaits trial.
