Prosecutors have dropped all charges against Carlishia Hood and her 14-year-old son in the shooting death of 32-year-old Jeremy Brown.
The office did not specify what new evidence led to its decision, but it comes after video surfaced over the weekend that appears to show Jeremy Brown, the man who was killed, punching Hood immediately before he was shot June 18.
The video, widely distributed on social media, was apparently shot by a bystander and does not show the shooting. The incident also was captured by high-definition surveillance cameras, officials said.
In presenting their case last week, prosecutors said that Brown, 32, punched Hood in the head at a Maxwell Street Express at 11656 S. Halsted St. after the two got into an argument while waiting in line for food.
A spokesperson for the Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx’s office confirmed it had dropped first-degree murder and contributing to the delinquency of a minor charges against Carlishia Hood.
Hood’s son — whose name has not been released because he is a juvenile — was also arrested on a first-degree murder charge, which has since been dismissed as well.
Foxx’s office said that decision was made “based upon our continued review and in light of emerging evidence.”
“Based upon the facts, evidence, and the law we are unable to meet our burden of proof in the prosecution of these cases,” officials with the State’s Attorney’s Office said in a statement Monday.
Brown ran from the store as Hood’s son allegedly continued to fire at him. The teen and his mother followed Brown into the parking lot, where she told her son to keep shooting Brown and to kill him, prosecutors said.
Hood also was accused of telling her son to then shoot Brown’s girlfriend and of trying to take the gun from her son afterward. The two left the scene and went home
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