Three of 4 males convicted in a spate of 2022 carjackings and armed robberies have been sentenced by a federal decide, in accordance with the U.S. lawyer’s workplace for the Northern District of Illinois.
This week, federal judges sentenced Tyler Oates-Nelson, 29, to fifteen years; and Davario McDowell, 25, to 18 years in federal jail, in accordance with prosecutors. Two weeks in the past, Damandre Henley, 28, was sentenced to 22 years; and Dwight Hansberry, 31, is scheduled to be sentenced March 20.
All 4 pleaded responsible to federal carjacking and armed theft costs final fall, in accordance with courtroom paperwork.
Once they had been initially charged in March 2023, the 4 had been accused of stealing a automotive at gunpoint within the 800 block of West Erie Avenue in West City on Sept. 28, 2022. Prosecutors later found they dedicated 4 different carjackings.
The boys had pushed to the West City neighborhood in Oates-Nelson’s car round 11:30 p.m., and Henley, Hansberry and McDowell pointed weapons on the driver of a Volkswagen Tiguan with an toddler in a rear automotive seat whereas ordering them out of the car, in accordance with courtroom paperwork. One in every of them patted down the motive force, taking a registered handgun, earlier than the motive force eliminated the toddler from the automotive and the 4 drove away with the stolen car.
Within the subsequent 10 minutes, they dedicated two armed robberies within the 2600 block of West Lawrence Avenue in Lincoln Sq. and within the 4600 block of North Rockwell Avenue in Ravenswood, pointing weapons at victims earlier than robbing them.
The following day, they went to a 7-Eleven within the 2900 block of West Montrose Avenue in Albany Park and pulled a gun on the clerk working there, in accordance with courtroom paperwork. They compelled him right into a again room and hit him within the head with a weapon — inflicting him to bleed “profusely” — earlier than stealing liquor and cigarettes, and grabbing money from the register.
A short while later, the group encountered Chicago law enforcement officials and fled earlier than being arrested, in accordance with courtroom paperwork. Officers recovered $560 in money and three 9mm pistols, together with a monitoring machine from the 7-Eleven amongst merchandise that they had taken from the shop.
