A man already facing charges for allegedly shooting a man in Humboldt Park this year is now accused of murdering a man in Humboldt Park in September 2024 while on felony release. Tyler Crider, 25, is the 38th person charged with killing or trying to kill someone while on felony pretrial release in Chicago during 2024. Those cases involve 55 victims, 17 of whom died.
At about 9 p.m. on September 25, 2024, Abdelhadi Jafry, 26, his brother, and four friends were standing outside waiting on a food order in the 3400 block of West Le Moyne Street when a black Jeep rolled toward them. Gunmen opened fire from the Jeep’s driver’s and passenger windows, striking Jafry. The others were not hurt.
A witness sitting in a nearby car made direct eye contact with the driver and saw him shoot Jafry, prosecutors said in a detention filing. After the Jeep fled the scene, the witness, a recent nursing school graduate, called 911 and immediately began trying to save Jafry. He later died from his injuries.
Chicago police recovered eight .40-caliber casings and four .45-caliber casings at the scene. Prosecutors say analysis of those casings linked them to the same two guns used in a separate shooting two days later.
Surveillance video captured the stolen Jeep in the area before and after the murder, traveling with stolen license plates attached to it.
Six days after Jafry was killed, on October 1, Crider was arrested in connection with a stolen vehicle case. He was driving a Jeep of the same make, model, and color as the one used in the murder, the detention filing said, but it was outfitted with a different set of stolen plates. The Jeep he was driving had been stolen four days before the murder, according to prosecutors.
When detectives executed a search warrant on Crider’s phone, they found it pinged on the cell tower nearest the murder scene at the time of the killing, and that its movements tracked along the route the Jeep was seen taking on video, prosecutors alleged.
Based on all of that, detectives placed Crider’s picture in a photo lineup. The woman who had recently graduated from nursing school in 2024 took a look. According to prosecutors, she selected Crider’s photo as the man she saw driving the Jeep and firing at the victims. Crider was on pretrial release for a manufacture-and-delivery of cannabis charge at the time of Jafry’s murder and when he was arrested for possessing the stolen Jeep.
Earlier this year, on February 27, Crider was arrested again after Chicago police monitoring a live surveillance feed around watched him take cover behind a parked car in the 1400 block of North Washtenaw, draw a gun, and open fire at a nearby vehicle, prosecutors said in a separate detention filing.
Crider and an accomplice then got into a black Mercedes and drove away. Officers stopped the car, but Crider ran and got away. However, prosecutors say police arrested him when he later returned to the scene. A victim later showed up at a hospital with a gunshot wound to his shoulder, according to the detention petition.
At the time of this year’s shooting, Crider was on parole for the stolen motor vehicle conviction. His parole has now been revoked, and he has been returned to prison.
In addition to the stolen vehicle and cannabis convictions, Crider has gun possession convictions from 2020 and 2021.
Judge Shauna Boliker ordered Crider detained on a charge of first-degree murder in connection with Jafry’s death. He has not been charged in connection with the shooting that occurred six days after the murder. Prosecutors charged him with reckless discharge of a firearm and possession of a firearm by a repeat felon in connection with this year’s shooting.
The “not horrible” series
This report continues our coverage of individuals accused of killing, shooting, or trying to kill or shoot others on pretrial release for a felony allegation. CWBChicago began our series of reports in November 2019 after then-Cook County Chief Judge Timothy Evans publicly stated, “We haven’t had any horrible incidents occur” under the court’s bond reform initiative.
The actual number of murders and shootings committed by people awaiting trial for felony allegations is undoubtedly much higher than the numbers seen here. Since 2017, CPD has brought charges in less than 5% of non-fatal shootings and 33% of murders, according to the city’s data. You can see all of the “not horrible” stories here.
