CHICAGO — A Cook County judge has rejected a prosecutor’s request to keep a man in custody after he allegedly shot another man during an argument at their Englewood home.
In a detention petition, prosecutors told Judge Susana Ortiz that Darren Reed, 24, brandished a gun and shot the man in the left thigh during an argument with the victim on the afternoon of January 22 in the 7000 block of South Carpenter. Surgeons installed rods to repair the man’s broken femur, according to the document.
While CPD radio transmissions indicate that at least two people reported that the victim was approaching Reed with a machete at the time he was shot, prosecutors said police did not find any weapons at the scene.
According to Reed’s arrest report, Chicago police officers met with the 40-year-old victim and a witness, who both identified Reed by name and told the cops that he was driving a blue minivan to Wentworth Elementary School, 1340 West 71st Street.
The police went to the school, found a blue minivan, and ordered Reed out of the driver’s seat. Reed told the cops that his gun was in the vehicle’s center console, the arrest report said.
He is charged with aggravated battery by discharging a firearm.
Reed, who is licensed to own firearms, does not have a concealed carry permit to carry them in public, prosecutors said. Judge Ortiz ordered him to surrender his license and firearms to police and instructed him to avoid contacting the victim, according to court records. She did not place him on the sheriff’s electronic monitoring program.
