CHICAGO — A fatal shooting on the Dan Ryan Expressway near Sox Park last year stemmed from a rivalry between two factions of the Moe Town P-Stones street gang, prosecutors said as they filed the first charges in the case.
Around 8:45 p.m. on June 7, an IDOT worker saw a disabled white Jeep Compass on the inbound Ryan near 35th Street and stopped to help the motorist, officials said. When he shined his flashlight through the SUV’s heavily tinted windows, he could see the driver, 26-year-old Tywaun Donald, was slumped to the side and had a gunshot wound to his head.
Donald was pronounced dead at the scene. Illinois State Police investigators found a fully loaded handgun under Donald’s buttocks, but there were no indications that he had fired the weapon, according to a proffer filed by prosecutors.
The proffer stated that Norwood, Donald, and the dark Jeep’s driver are all members of the Moe Town P-Stones, but they belong to different factions. According to the filing, a conflict broke out between the two groups while Donald was in prison.
During an exhaustive investigation, state police agents determined that Donald stopped at a liquor store on 54th Street about an hour before the shooting. Video from the store showed two other men, one who remains at large, and 32-year-old Darius Norwood, arrived about five minutes later.
Surveillance video showed Donald driving away, followed by a dark Jeep Cherokee driven by the uncharged man with Norwood in the back seat, the proffer said.
As the vehicles approached 37th Street, Norwood allegedly fired a shot from the driver’s side of the rear seat, striking Donald in the head. Donald’s SUV swerved and crashed into the center divider. A Chicago ShotSpotter device registered the gunfire at 8:47 p.m.
Video shows the dark Jeep returning to the liquor store and Norwood exiting the rear driver’s side door about ten minutes after the shooting, according to the proffer. Cops pulled the Jeep over four days later and forensics testing allegedly revealed gunshot residue in the rear seat area where Norwood sat.
Norwood’s felony background includes a probation sentence for mob action in 2019, 65 days in jail for illegal gun possession in 2018, and probation for narcotics in 2013, prosecutors said.
Judge Ankur Srivastava detained Norwood to await trial on a charge of first-degree murder.
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