Three men, including a recent parolee, are charged with firing guns down a West Side street Sunday afternoon before attempting to flee police in a chase that ended with a violent rollover crash on the Eisenhower Expressway, according to Chicago police reports.
Officers monitoring a Chicago Police Department surveillance camera saw a silver Infiniti Q50 stop in the 3700 block of West Lexington Avenue shortly before 4:30 p.m., police said. Three men got out of the vehicle and began firing guns in multiple directions, including toward passing cars and an apartment building. Investigators later recovered handgun and rifle casings at the scene.
Patrol units and surveillance camera operators tracked the Infiniti intermittently as it moved through the area. When officers located the car, the driver sped onto the Eisenhower Expressway, police said. Near the Independence Boulevard overpass, the driver tried to pass another vehicle, lost control, and crashed. The Infiniti rolled over, ejecting the driver, who was taken to Stroger Hospital. Police said he was issued traffic citations, but is not charged in the shooting investigation.
Officers found Zyion Wilson, 24, outside the crashed vehicle and noted he matched the description of one of the gunmen seen firing earlier, according to a police report. Wilson was treated and released from Mount Sinai Hospital.
Calvin Jackson, a 33-year-old, six-time convicted felon, was found in the back passenger seat with a firearm underneath his body, according to a CPD report. Jackson, who was most recently paroled on November 26, was listed in critical condition at Stroger Hospital.
Police also arrested Terrence Calhoun, 43, after he allegedly tried to walk through the crash scene and then pushed a CPD sergeant who told him to leave, a police report said. Officers found a rifle foregrip in Calhoun’s possession at the time of his arrest and later determined he had been a rear passenger in the Infiniti and had fired a rifle during the initial shooting, according to police.
Court records show Calhoun was found not guilty of Class X armed habitual criminal charges following a bench trial before Judge Peggy Chiampas in October. His criminal history includes a 2023 conviction for being a felon in possession of a firearm and nine other felony convictions dating back to 2001, records show.
Jackson and Calhoun are each charged with reckless discharge of a firearm and possession of a firearm by a repeat felon. Wilson is charged with reckless discharge of a firearm and aggravated unlawful possession of a weapon.
All three men were detained following court appearances before Judge Ankur Srivastava, according to court records.
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