Like too many young Chicagoans, Kevin McMurtry dropped out of high school and then spent years struggling to find his way. He racked up three felony convictions between 2006 and 2012 for non-violent crimes. In 2020, as a new father at the age of 34, he decided to get on track. He joined the anti-violence program Chicago CRED and earned his GED. After raising his now 3-year-old daughter alone, he recently married. Everything seemed to be going the right way. He had a “success story so moving it was featured on ABC News,” his defense attorney said Thursday after prosecutors...