A person accused of fatally capturing a 19-year-old woman final yr within the Again of the Yards neighborhood was ordered held till trial.
Elijah Stiffened, 20, faces one felony depend of first-degree murder and two felony counts of tried first-degree homicide within the shooting that killed Cyra Magby, Chicago police stated. He was ordered held Wednesday by Cook dinner County Circuit Courtroom decide Susana Ortiz.
About 11 p.m. on June 11, 2024, Magby was driving together with her boyfriend and one other pal after they pulled right into a Shell fuel station close to Garfield Boulevard and Halsted Avenue. As they pulled into the lot, Magby and her boyfriend noticed an individual they acknowledged from highschool get right into a Nissan Rogue being pushed by Stiffened.
Magby and her boyfriend had been pleasant with Stiffened till a mutual pal was killed, at which level they not stayed involved, prosecutors stated.
Magby’s boyfriend noticed the individual level them out to Stiffened and due to that, Magby determined to drive away, prosecutors stated.
However police say Stiffened adopted Magby to the 800 block of West Garfield Boulevard, pulling up alongside the passenger aspect of her automobile.
Magby’s boyfriend noticed Stiffened holding one thing in his hand, and seconds later he noticed a flash and heard a gunshot.
Magby was struck by a bullet that went by the rear proper passenger window, traveled by the entrance passenger head relaxation and struck her within the higher again, prosecutors stated. After she was shot, Magby tried to hurry away however swerved and drove head-on right into a Volkswagen Jetta with two folks inside. The occupants within the Jetta suffered minor accidents. Magby’s boyfriend was not harm.
Magby was taken to College of Chicago Medical Heart, the place she was pronounced useless.
Two days after the capturing, officers discovered the Nissan — which had been reported stolen 10 days earlier than — deserted at 5559 S. Michigan Ave. A search warrant was executed on the automobile and a shell casing was discovered on the entrance driver’s-side ground board, prosecutors stated.
The Nissan examined optimistic for gunshot residue and DNA contained in the SUV was linked to Stiffened, prosecutors stated.
A search warrant on Stiffened’s cellphone positioned the telephone within the space of the capturing on the time of the capturing and within the space the place the Nissan was deserted, prosecutors stated.
Stiffened is anticipated to seem in court docket March 25.
