Man on bond for gun offense killed 15-year-old, wounded woman in Roseland drive-by shooting: police

A man released on bond for a weapons charge is now accused of killing a 15-year-old boy and wounding a woman in a drive-by shooting earlier this month on the Far South Side.

Antawan Smith, 29, faces charges of first-degree murder, aggravated battery and being an armed habitual criminal in connection with the May 14 slaying of Jaylin Ellzey in Roseland, Chicago police and authorities said.

A Cook County judge denied him bail during a hearing Monday, according to court records.

Smith was allegedly in a vehicle that pulled up to Ellzey and a 23-year-old woman as they stood in the 200 block of West 113th Street, police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.

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Smith allegedly fired shots into Ellzey’s head, abdomen and lower body, authorities said. He died later at Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn. A woman was struck in the chest and seriously wounded.

Smith was arrested May 25 after he sped from a traffic stop and crashed in the 6900 block of South Marshfield Avenue, police said. Officers allegedly found him with a gun. He was later charged in the fatal May 14 shooting.

At the time of the shooting, Smith was on bond for a gun charge from October 2018, according to court records.

Smith, of Roseland, has a criminal record that includes multiple gun charges from 2015 and 2008. In the later case, he served three years in Illinois prison.

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