The charges were announced Thursday morning, hours after a man was shot and several other people were robbed in a series of overnight armed attacks in the downtown neighborhood.
A second man has been charged with beating and robbing a man last month in River North in an attack that was captured on video. The charges were announced against Mekiel Hampton Thursday morning — just hours after a man was shot and several other people were robbed in a series of overnight armed attacks in the downtown neighborhood. Hampton,19, beat and robbed a 40-year-old man early Aug.28 in the 400 block of North State Street, police said.
