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‘Probation didn’t work’: Man gets 15 years for shooting Lyft driver during carjacking attempt {Chicago}
CWB Chicago ^ | September 25, 2026 | CWB Chicago staff writer

Posted on 09/25/2026 7:35:32 AM PDT by Salman

A Chicago man who shot a Lyft driver during a carjacking attempt just days after completing a juvenile detention sentence for another carjacking has been sentenced to 15 years, court records show. Deandre Milons was arrested three weeks later after police caught him allegedly carjacking another driver. He received a 10-year sentence in that case.

Milons was a Lyft passenger when he pulled out a gun and ordered the driver out of the car in the 7500 block of South Dorchester Avenue in Grand Crossing on July 10, 2024, prosecutors said. He allegedly racked the slide of the gun and threatened to shoot the 31-year-old driver, who fought back. Milons shot him during the struggle and fled. The victim survived.

Three weeks later, on August 1, Milons allegedly carjacked a 28-year-old woman in the 6500 block of South Vernon Avenue in Woodlawn. Prosecutors said Milons struck the woman in the head, threatened to shoot her, and demanded her phone and keys. The woman never saw a gun, but she complied.

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Probation didn’t work. Of course.


1 posted on 09/25/2026 7:35:32 AM PDT by Salman
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To: Salman

Who would be dumb enough to pick up someone who looked like that?


2 posted on 09/25/2026 7:40:05 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare itself.)
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To: Salman

Just needed a new social worker


3 posted on 09/25/2026 7:41:29 AM PDT by bigbob (We are all Charlie Kirk now)
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To: Mr. K
Who would be dumb enough to pick up someone who looked like that?

EVERYBODY going to 7500 SOUTH Dorchester looks like that. (I lived about 15 blocks north of there in Hyde Park.)
4 posted on 09/25/2026 7:46:39 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
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To: Salman

Just another son of Obeyme.


5 posted on 09/25/2026 7:48:16 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: Mr. K
Who would be dumb enough to pick up someone who looked like that?

Well, you wouldn't want to be called a RAY-cist, would you?

Regards,

6 posted on 09/25/2026 7:50:55 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Mr. K

Obama’s son.


7 posted on 09/25/2026 7:53:31 AM PDT by spincaster (i)
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To: Salman

Does not Lyft has some kind of algorithm to protect the drivers.
Uber supposedly does?
People rate the drivers, drivers rate the passengers?


8 posted on 09/25/2026 7:54:31 AM PDT by AZJeep (sane )
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To: Salman

Unless he stole someone elses phone his identity could easily be determined from the Lyft platform. Also, many drivers have cameras on their passengers. Did he really expect to get away with it?


9 posted on 09/25/2026 7:54:42 AM PDT by posterchild
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Did he really expect to get away with it?

Criminals are smart, said no one, ever.

10 posted on 09/25/2026 8:33:39 AM PDT by Ol' Dan Tucker (If you want to hate America, watch the news. If you want to love America, drive across it.)
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To: posterchild

Unless he stole someone elses phone his identity could easily be determined from the Lyft platform. Also, many drivers have cameras on their passengers. Did he really expect to get away with it?

+++++++++

Probably. Probably never rubbed those two brain cells together.


11 posted on 09/25/2026 8:51:42 AM PDT by sonova (No money? You're free to go.)
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...do I look...! do I dare/bother to look...??!! aw, shucks...I done looked anyway...my suspicions were confirmed..another miscreant of the African persuasion....


12 posted on 09/25/2026 9:29:34 AM PDT by TokarevM57
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To: Salman

Hang him.


13 posted on 09/25/2026 10:39:47 AM PDT by chopperk (,)
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To: Salman

Hang him.


14 posted on 09/25/2026 10:39:51 AM PDT by chopperk (,)
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To: Salman

No photos of the victims. My bet is they are White.


15 posted on 09/25/2026 10:41:45 AM PDT by wintertime ( )
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To: wintertime

Bookie not taking best.


16 posted on 09/25/2026 11:48:56 AM PDT by Vaduz (NEVER TRUST A DEMOCRAT)
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To: Salman

I’ll bet he was on his way to church choir practice.


17 posted on 09/25/2026 1:16:08 PM PDT by Midwesterner53
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