Indiana man faces murder charge in West Town shooting
Jequan Scales | Chicago police
CHICAGO - A 32-year-old Indiana man faces a murder charge in connection to a September shooting in West Town.
Jequan Scales was arrested Monday in South Shore after being identified as a person who shot Kijuan Burrage on Sept. 6, Chicago police said in a statement.
The shooting stemmed from a fight over a woman, Cook County prosecutors said Wednesday.
About 2 a.m. that day, two men, including the woman’s boyfriend, started fighting at a party in the 2100 block of West Randolph Street, prosecutors said. Burrage, 24, got between the two men before a still unidentified person and Scales began firing at the group.
Scales was struck multiple times and fell to the ground, prosecutors said. He later died at Stroger Hospital.
The incident was captured on surveillance cameras in the vicinity, and Scales allegedly fled the scene in a silver-colored Jeep, prosecutors said.
Scales was taken into custody Monday and charged with Burrage’s murder. He admitted to being at the scene of the shooting and having a gun with him that day, prosecutors said.
He was ordered held without bail and is expected back in court Jan. 25.