BREAKING: 19-year-old Tyshon Brownlee, of Oak Park, has been charged in the shooting and robbery of culinary student Dakotah Earley in Lincoln Park.
-- A 19-year-old man has been charged with the shooting and robbery of 23-year-old culinary student Dakotah Earley earlier this month, as well as four other armed robberies.
According to the charges, Brownlee shot Earley three times after robbing him of his cell phone on May 6 on the 1300 block of West Webster Avenue. At a community safety meeting Monday night, Ald. Brian Hopkins said Brownlee"has five carjacking arrests on his record in the last two years." around 3 a.m. on May 6 when one of two robbers came out of hiding and pointed a gun at him. After giving the offender his bag, Earley reached for the gun, and both fell to the ground as they struggled over the gun. He was shot three times while robbers asked for his cellphone password.
"He continues to fight for his life at Illinois Masonic Hospital. The reason I get emotional is I talk to his mother everyday since this incident happened," Hopkins said."She's quite a woman. We pray together and I tried to do the best I could to encourage her and keep her spirits up, but one thing I can't do is explain why this happened.
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