A 21-year-old man who prosecutors said carjacked a woman in Little Village while already on electronic monitoring for another case was handed an effective eight-year sentence after pleading guilty in three separate cases on Friday.
Khalil Ingram resolved the carjacking allegations by pleading guilty to unlawful restraint, drawing a six-year prison term, records show. He also pleaded guilty in a separate aggravated unlawful use of a weapon case, which added a consecutive two-year sentence, and to aggravated battery of a peace officer, which brought a concurrent six-year term. Cook County Judge Mary Margaret Brosnahan handed down the sentences.
The hijacking allegations stemmed from an April 2023 incident, where prosecutors said Ingram was wearing an ankle monitor for the pending felony gun charge when he targeted a 29-year-old woman.
After parking in the 2500 block of West Cermak Road, the woman was speaking with her mother on the phone when Ingram opened her car door, ordered her out, and twice demanded her purse, prosecutors claimed. The woman refused, but prosecutors said Ingram drove away in her car with her belongings inside.
Among the items in the vehicle were the victim’s AirPods, which Chicago police pinged to locate the car within hours. When they found it, Ingram was inside. Detectives also learned that GPS data from his ankle monitor traced the same path as the stolen AirPods and car during and after the hijacking.
During an initial court hearing, prosecutors said Ingram had seven juvenile adjudications, including three robberies. They said he was on juvenile parole for a 2021 carjacking when the Little Village incident occurred.
With good behavior, Ingram will serve half of his eight-year sentence. That four-year term will be reduced further by 1,005 days of credit he earned while in jail.
