A Chicago mother has been charged with murder after she allegedly told her 14-year-old son to shot a man she was fighting with at a restaurant over the weekend.
According to WMAQ, Carlishia Hood, 35, reportedly got into an argument with 32-year-old Jeremy Brown while in line for food at Maxwell Street Express, prosecutors said Thursday.
Brown’s girlfriend was also in line and involved in the argument, they said. When it turned physical, Hood reportedly texted her teenage son to come to the restaurant.
Brown allegedly punched Hood in the head, and the teen took out a gun and shot Brown in the back, prosecutors said. With the teen still firing at him, Brown ran from the store. Hood and the boy followed him into the parking lot, where Hood reportedly told him to keep shooting and kill him.
When the boy stopped shooting, prosecutors said, Hood reportedly told him to shoot Brown’s girlfriend and tried to take the gun from him when he didn’t. The teen pushed his mother away, but both got in a car and drove home together.
Brown was hit twice by bullets and pronounced dead at the scene, the Chicago Sun Times said.
The incident was caught on the restaurant’s security cameras, and Brown’s girlfriend identified the teen and his mother in photo arrays, WMAQ said.
Hood and her son surrendered to police on Wednesday. In addition to murder, she was charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor. She was ordered held on a $3 million bail and is due back in court on July 12.
Prosecutors said she had a valid firearm owners identification card, a permit to carry a concealed weapon, and no criminal background.
The teen faces charges of first-degree murder, aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, and unlawful possession of a firearm, the state’s attorney’s office said. His case is in Juvenile Court.
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[Featured image: Hood and her son outside the restaurant after the shooting/Chicago Police Department]