Torrey Lewis | Cook County sheriff’s office
Posted on 02/07/2024 6:54:04 PM PST by Drew68
CHICAGO — A man on electronic monitoring while awaiting trial on murder and carjacking charges was shot while driving a stolen car with firearms inside the vehicle, officials said Wednesday.
Incredibly, this is the second time that Torrey Lewis has been accused of possessing firearms while on electronic monitoring for the same 2017 murder and carjacking case. The previous gun charges, which we told you about in April 2022, ended with a judge finding him not guilty during a bench trial.
Lewis is facing more than 160 counts of murder in the still-pending murder case in which a disabled man was shot to death while sitting in his wheelchair outside a suburban movie theater as his girlfriend looked on.
New allegations
Around 10 a.m. on January 31, Lewis was enjoying his “free movement day” — one of two days each week that people on electronic monitoring (EM) in Illinois are allowed to be out of the house under a 2022 law that some people consider “criminal justice reform.” Legislators who supported the measure said it was necessary so people on EM could do “essential activities” like going to a doctor or getting food.
Torrey Lewis | Cook County sheriff’s office
Lewis’s “essential activities” that day had him sitting behind the wheel of a stolen car in the parking lot of an auto parts store in Dolton, officials said Wednesday. He was shot multiple times as he sat in the vehicle. A rifle and a handgun were found in the front passenger area, according to the Cook County sheriff’s office.
A man in the back seat of the stolen car was also shot, as were two men outside the vehicle. The sheriff’s office said police determined that someone in the stolen car exchanged gunfire with the occupants of another vehicle.
Officials cannot monitor EM participants on their “free movement days” because there are no restrictions on where they can go as long as they stay in Cook County, according to the sheriff’s office.
But the sheriff’s office reviewed Lewis’ ankle monitor GPS history to see what he was up to on the morning he got shot. They said he left his house at 8:48 a.m. and “proceeded to travel at high rates of speed throughout the South Suburbs, at times reaching speeds of over 100 miles an hour, until he arrived at the scene of the shooting.”
“There is no evidence that Lewis was attempting to do his laundry, shop for groceries, or attend religious services during his high-speed travels,” the sheriff’s office said in a written statement.
Murder and carjacking allegations
Lewis is awaiting trial on allegations that he and another man robbed and fatally shot Timothy Horace outside a movie theater in Country Club Hills in July 2017. Prosecutors said the killers stole the victim’s Rolex watch and then tried to drive away with his car, but they couldn’t operate the vehicle because it was equipped for use by disabled drivers, the Chicago Tribune reported in 2018.
A grand jury returned a true bill that charged Lewis with 160 counts of murder, nine counts of armed robbery, and 16 counts of attempted vehicular hijacking in the case, and Lewis was initially held without bail.
Judge Carl Boyd reduced the no-bail hold to $300,000 in May 2020, allowing Lewis to go home on electronic monitoring by posting 10% of the bail amount.
Gun allegations
Then, in April 2022, authorities went to Lewis’ home after Oak Forest police notified the sheriff’s office that Lewis had been involved in a domestic incident involving a firearm.
Sheriff’s officers searched Lewis’ home and located a rifle and handgun, both of which were stolen, prosecutors said at the time. They charged him with two misdemeanor gun violations.
The judge handling Lewis’ bail hearing in April 2022 was puzzled by the lack of felony charges.
“It looks like there are any number of charges that the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office could have charged this defendant with, the domestic, the stolen handgun, the stolen guns,” Judge Barbara Dawkins said. “There are any number of charges that could have been placed against this defendant. They chose to charge him with misdemeanor offenses, so here we are in misdemeanor bond court as opposed to felony bond court.”
A spokesperson for the state’s attorney said the sheriff’s office filed the misdemeanor gun charges without asking prosecutors to approve felony counts.
Judge Carl Boyd released Lewis on electronic monitoring again six weeks after the gun charges were filed. According to court records, Judge Robert Kuzas found Lewis not guilty of the charges during a bench trial on January 5, 2023.
Lewis is now charged with felony aggravated unlawful use of a weapon in connection with the January 31 matter in Dolton. He remains hospitalized for treatment of gunshot wounds. State law prohibits him from being detained on the charge until he appears personally in court.
I want my own country. There's no fixing this.
160 counts of murder?
It’ll be fixed.
One way or another.
L
He remains hospitalized for treatment of gunshot wounds?
Well, that’s an improvement. He needs an Epstein position.
His Mom: “He’s still basically a good boy.”
He's "mostly peaceful."
Maybe he’ll come across Judge Carl Boyd getting into his car. KARMA!!
We have some terrible shooters in this country. In a just world, someone would have taken this guy out. But no, he’s going to milk the system even further with his gun wound(s).
Just another day in Chiraq.
Chicago. The place where criminals are encouraged to keep on being criminals.
“Man charged with ‘brutal attack’ at Chicago Union Station after being released on similar charges thanks to cashless bail law”
Eff our clown "justice system", our fake government, fake laws and fake "elections".
Curse all you racists! Torrey Lewis built America, and it is Black Mystery Month or whatever, and you should show him some respect! Which I will do, too, as soon as I finish binge-watching Vera on BritBox. And cleaning the commode.
“Legislators who supported the measure said it was necessary so people on EM could do “essential activities” like going to a doctor or getting food.”
...or jacking a hoe.
Criminals are only encouraged to keep on their chosen career paths if they’re black criminals. I suspect a whitey would get the full weight of the judicial system on his neck.
Cook County. As crooked a Democrat political craphole as you will find in what is left of America.
Well, he was mostly a good boy. Most nights he wasn't
out killing people.
Here is another one from a couple days ago.
https://cwbchicago.com/2024/02/chicago-man-charged-shooting-party-host.html
“Partygoer shot host who told him he couldn’t have a gun in her house: prosecutors”
“A grand jury returned a true bill that charged Lewis with 160 counts of murder”
If convicted on ALL counts, he will serve the 160 sentences concurrently, be given deferred adjudication and probation with community service.
Sgt Voight could solve this.
Ya' think?
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