Dezhawn Seargent, 26, drove a borrowed SUV in the Aug. 15 shooting, prosecutors said. The gunmen targeted a rival gang member but instead shot and killed a 19-year-old woman, prosecutors said.
The alleged getaway driver in a deadly shooting on the Eisenhower Expressway has been charged with murder. Dezhawn Seargent had been driving a borrowed SUV alongside a car a rival gang member was traveling in when two gunman inside Seargent’s SUV opened fire on the morning of Aug.15, Assistant Cook County State’s Attorney Kevin DeBoni said Thursday. The rival gang member was not injured. Instead, the gunmen struck 19-year-old Lakasia Gregory in the head and leg on the Interstate 290 near Central Avenue, DeBoni said. Gregory was also in the vehicle that was driven by the girlfriend of the man the uncharged gunmen were targeting.
