A judge Friday denied bail for two men charged with opening fire last month on a gathering in the Garfield Park neighborhood, killing the mother of a top Ohio State football recruit and wounding four others.
Manuel Bahamon, 22, and Ismael Lozada, 23, both face one count of first-degree murder and four counts of attempted murder, Chicago police announced Friday.
On July 16, Ashley Griggs and several other people gathered in the 4000 block of West Washington Boulevard after a Marshall High School reunion, according to a police report.
About 2 a.m., an uncharged co-offender allegedly drove Bahamon and Lozada and three other witnesses past the gathering, prosecutors said. They had already driven by the group earlier in the night and seen them outside shooting dice, according to prosecutors.
Bahamon and Lozada then began shooting from the passenger windows of the car into the crowd of people, prosecutors said.
Griggs, 40, hit 10 times, was pronounced dead on arrival at Mount Sinai Medical Center, police said. Three men and another woman were wounded.
Ashley Griggs and her son, Carnell Tate, a standout football player at Marist High School who enrolled at Ohio State University this year.
Griggs's son Carnell Tate, now an Ohio State University freshman, was a standout football player at Marist High School and became a top OSU recruit.
Tate signed a letter of intent with Ohio State in December and enrolled in January.
“The wait is finally over,” Griggs tweeted earlier this year, showing off her son’s No. 17 Ohio State jersey.
Prosecutors said .40-caliber shell casings were recovered at the scene.
During the attack, Bahamon accidentally shot Lozada in the arm and later brought him to Humboldt Park Health Center for treatment, according to prosecutors.
In the days after the attack, Bahamon sent multiple text messages to one witness about the shooting and its coverage in the news, prosecutors said. He also sent messages about his “error of shooting his co-offender,” they said.
Bahamon has a pending charge for unlawful use of a weapon, while Lozada is on probation for aggravated unlawful use of a weapon.
Both men were ordered held without bail. Their next court date was set for Sept. 13.
Chicago Sun-Times reporter Michael O’Brien contributed.
