Overview
- Prosecutors charged 55-year-old lifeguard Charles Leto with first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder, aggravated battery by discharging a firearm and aggravated discharge of a firearm involving an occupied vehicle.
- Authorities say Leto opened fire outside the Douglass Park pool on June 26, killing 15-year-old Marjay Dotson and seriously wounding 14-year-old Jeremy Herred.
- Herred, a cousin of Laquan McDonald, remains hospitalized in serious condition at Stroger Hospital.
- Police pod camera footage obtained by WGN-TV shows the lifeguard fixing his bicycle moments before he suddenly fired at the teens without any visible provocation.
- The Chicago Park District closed the pool and is cooperating with investigators in an internal review as community leaders call for a hate crime investigation.