I think sometimes we need to check ourselves. We honor gangster life and street life and it gives nothing to us at all. It gives us death when we hang around people who use guns to settle problems we are not in the wild west. But in the city where our opportunities are so limited that drugs is the reason why they all should be legal getting high kill to people period. There is no future in being a thug and life is just that empty hopelessness. Life is just that it is hard as hell to stay out the streets when the mess goes down. We need to have those cameras everywhere so when bad things happen we can see them. BIg brother watching is a good thing when all hell breaks loose. So once again two lives lost the killer and the victim. The sad thing when you are in gang territory police doesn’t care they wait until all the bodies are on the ground before they come. May the peace of God be with you if you call the police. They’re not coming until you are in the morgue. I was told where to go and not to go as a social worker. I had kids in drug houses and I had kids in programs. I had kids at the home. You have to watch your back as a social worker or you could get killed.
A man has been charged with last year’s killing of Tray Savage, a rapper signed to Chief Keef’s record label, after he was extradited to Chicago from Texas.
Investigators identified Demitri Jackson as the gunman from a surveillance video that shows him walking with a distinctive limp before and after killing Savage, whose real name was Kentray Young, Cook County prosecutors said in a court document.
Prosecutors didn’t offer a motive for the June 19 shooting, saying only the two were affiliated with the same gang faction and spoke briefly 15 minutes before the shooting in the 8100 block of South Evans Avenue.
Jackson, 20, returned in a car, got out, and interacted again with Young, 26, as he sat in another car with his girlfriend, prosecutors said. Jackson went back to his car and moved it into the middle of the street, blocking Young’s car. He then stepped out and started shooting, prosecutors said.
Young, struck in the neck and shoulder, crashed into a parked car, prosecutors said. He died at the University of Chicago Medical Center.
Jackson sped off down an alley in a white Mazda, which police found the next day burning in an alley near 84th Place and Ellis, prosecutors said.
Police had several previous run-ins with Jackson, including a shooting in 2018 that wounded Jackson in the ankle, leaving him with a distinctive limp, prosecutors said.
Video from a convenience store before the shooting shows Jackson’s face uncovered while he enters the white Mazda, prosecutors said. Other surveillance video shows the killing, as well as Jackson, driving to 84th and Ellis and walking with a limp in distinctive clothing, prosecutors said.
Members of the Chicago Police Department who knew Jackson identified him from the surveillance photos, which also showed a “unique skin imperfection” on Jackson’s shoulder, prosecutors said.
Jackson was arrested April 23 in Fort Worth, Texas, prosecutors said. He was ordered held Sunday without bail on a count of first-degree murder.
Young was an associate of rapper Chief Keef and part of Keef’s Glo Gang collection of recording artists. He was known for his 2013 collaboration with Keef, “Chief Keef.”