A 39-year-old Aurora woman remains hospitalized with devastating injuries nearly two months after she was shot after leaving a Lincoln Park bar. On Friday, prosecutors charged a concealed-carry holder who had been drinking at the club that night with trying to kill her and tying the shooting to The Dime, the same bar that city officials have connected to an unrelated fatal shooting in July.
According to a detention proffer filed on Friday, a 39-year-old woman from Aurora and several of her friends went to the club, 2263 North Lincoln Avenue, to celebrate a friend’s birthday on the night of June 6. They rented a roped-off section of the club and remained there until the venue closed around 2:30 a.m. on June 7.
Prosecutors said Jaylin Jones, 23, drove to Lincoln Park in his Toyota Camry, bringing along a friend. After parking in a garage in the 2300 block of North Lincoln Avenue, they walked to The Dime, got frisked by security, and walked inside around 11:45 p.m., the proffer said.
After the bar closed, video from several businesses and residences showed a fight broke out between two groups of people, mostly women, near the intersection of Lincoln and Belden, according to the filing. Jones stood on the sidelines while the victim tried to separate the groups and calm everyone down. The proffer said video shows Jones running away from the scene and returning to the parking garage before jogging back toward the area.
When Jones returned, he allegedly lifted his shirt and displayed the handle of a firearm to two of his companions. Moments later, prosecutors allege, he did the same to some unidentified women and said, “We’re good.”
A few minutes later, the fight flared up again, with two groups of women exchanging slaps and punches, and the victim again tried to separate the parties as the altercation moved east on Belden toward the mouth of an alley. Prosecutors said the woman never struck anyone.
At one point, the man who had arrived with Jones appeared to be struck by other participants in the fight. At that point, the proffer said, Jones then pulled his gun and fired two shots at the woman who had been trying to break up the fight, striking her in the chest and leg.
The gunfire caused the crowd to scatter. The woman’s friends carried her to a car and drove her to Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Prosecutors said Jones returned to the parking garage after the shooting and drove away.
Investigators learned that Jones has a concealed carry license and found federal firearms records showing that he purchased a handgun in July 2024 that uses the same caliber ammunition recovered at the shooting scene, according to the proffer. Detectives also obtained a search warrant for phone records related to a number Jones provided in those federal firearms records. The warrant revealed that the phone associated with that number was at the scene of the shooting at the time it occurred, according to the proffer.
The proffer said the victim has remained hospitalized as she battled numerous infections caused by her wounds, resulting in the loss of fingers and toes and the removal of portions of her intestinal tract. At one point, prosecutors said, she was placed in a medically induced coma.
Jones was unable to attend a detention hearing scheduled for Friday because he was being treated for a health matter, according to court records. A judge rescheduled the hearing for Saturday. He is charged with attempted first-degree murder and aggravated battery by discharging a firearm.
On July 21, a 30-year-old man was shot and killed in the 2200 block of North Lincoln Avenue, just yards from where the June shooting occurred. Within hours of the killing, Chicago police interim Supt. Fred Waller issued a summary closure order for The Dime, 2263 North Lincoln Avenue, after officials connected that day’s shooting to the business.
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