Angelo Bennett, of the 4300 block of North Ashland Avenue, faces first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder and aggravated battery/discharge of a firearm for the early Sunday slaying of Charles Jones, 42, and wounding of a 44-year-old woman who was in the passenger's seat of the 2007 Maserati Jones was driving in the 1000 block of North Branch Street, police said.
Police said a 2005 Buick LaCrosse sideswiped the 2007 Maserati luxury sedan about 2:50 a.m. before the shooting. Jones had pulled over after the crash and went to speak to the driver of the Buick, police said. The Buick's driver and a passenger then got out of their car, went to another car and then to the Maserati and began shooting, police said.
Details on the investigation and what led police to Bennett were not immediately released, but he was expected to appear Friday morning in Central Bond Court.
Jones and the wounded woman were taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead and the woman was originally listed in serious condition with a wound near the spine, officials said.
Jones was identified with a home address of the 2900 block of Indian Creek Drive in Miami, Fla., but had a local address on the 1100 block of North Dearborn in the Gold Coast according to a spokesman for the Cook County medical examiner's office and police.
Jones was listed as a manager of The Factory, a Far South Side gentleman's club on the 12000 block of South Doty Avenue. According to The Factory's Twitter page, someone posted, "God called his soldier home, R.I.P Charles Jones." Calls to the company's owner were not returned.
Inside the police tape in the industrial neighborhood -- down the block from a 5 a.m. bar whose patrons stumbled out to their cars past the crime scene -- sat the white Maserati with Texas license plates.
"I saw him (Jones) wobble and fall," said a 24-year-old man, who said he was driving by when the shooting happened.
The 24-year-old who saw the shooting raised his hand to show where the shooter pointed the gun when he opened fire -- about head height -- then dropped his hand to show the weapon pointing down when he shot again. The man was holding a black handgun, he said.
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