Jul 15, 2008 3:27 pm US/Central
$1M Bond For Teen's Shooting Death
CHICAGO (Sun-Times Media Wire) ―
Bond was set at $1 million Tuesday for a man charged with involuntary manslaughter for the fatal shooting of his 17-year-old friend at a block party early Sunday on the Far South Side.
Memlon Schumaker, 26, has been charged with involuntary manslaughter in the death of Marlow Jones, 17, according to Calumet Area detectives.
Bond was set at $1 million for Schumaker and a preliminary hearing was set for Aug. 4, according to Cook County State's Attorney's office spokesman Andy Conklin.
Jones, of 11945 S. LaSalle St., was shot at 12005 S. Lafayette Ave. and pronounced dead on the scene at 5:48 a.m. Sunday. An autopsy determined he died of a gunshot wound of the face and his death was ruled a homicide.
Jones and another man, in his 30s, were standing on the street in the 12000 block of South Lafayette Avenue about 1:30 a.m. when the shooting occurred, according to police News Affairs reports.
Prior to the shooting, Jones had reportedly been attending a memorial party to celebrate the birthday of a man fatally shot three years ago near the intersection of West 120th Street and South Wentworth Avenue, according to a police source.
Jones had left the party and gone to a nearby block party at the Lafayette Avenue address when the man in his 30s, who was not a friend of anyone at the block party, came over and began to start trouble.
Schumaker and the man got into an argument during a dice game at the party, prosecutors said.
Schumaker -- apparently a friend of Jones -- allegedly became angry with the man in his 30s and hit him in the face with the gun, chipping his tooth and cutting his forehead. In the process, the weapon apparently accidentally fired, striking and killing Jones, according to the source.
The man in his 30s suffered a wound to the head and was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn in "stable" condition.
Schumaker apparently accidentally shot Jones and turned himself in to police. Two eyewitnesses identified Schumaker as the shooter, Conklin said. Schumaker also admitted in a videotaped statement to carrying a gun, and striking the man at which point the gun fired, prosecutors said.
The man in his 30s was not expected to be charged in the incident, to which there were about 100 witnesses.
(Source: Sun-Times Media Wire © Chicago Sun-Times 2009. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.)
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