Chicago shooting: Man charged after 12-year-old boy fatally shot while lying in bed to be arraigned

Prosecutors mentioned Jaran Hughes fired the shot that killed Marcell Wilson on Jan. 2 in Englewood.

Wilson was mendacity in mattress in a house within the 5500-block of South Aberdeen Road when somebody he knew fired a handgun about 11:25 p.m., hanging him within the chest, Chicago police and the Cook dinner County health worker’s workplace mentioned after the capturing. He was taken to Comer Youngsters’s Hospital, the place he later died, police mentioned.

Hughes is charged with first diploma homicide.

His arraignment listening to is scheduled for Monday.

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Wilson all the time helped his neighbors and had a humorousness, his household mentioned after the capturing.

An excellent-aunt, Donna Gaither, mentioned she didn’t know the circumstances of the capturing. She mentioned Marcell usually helped his neighbors with chores and cherished to inform jokes.

“He was younger, however he was little useful boy,” Gaither mentioned. “He would assist anybody clear up. Something useful, something he may do. They paid him to scrub up the yard, rake the yard, choose up the paper. He was actually useful to a number of neighbors within the space.”

“He favored to be a comic. He cherished to crack jokes, he cherished to speak loopy,” she mentioned.

Marcell grew up on the South Facet and had moved round within the space lately together with his mom and father, Donna Gaither mentioned. She noticed Marcell much less usually after he entered college.

The Solar-Instances Media Wire contributed to this report.