PHOTO: The late great Dionte Maxwell
Thirty minutes before he was fatally shot at a family gathering Friday night on the Far South Side, Dionte Maxwell told his cousin to come over.
Then, some uninvited guests showed up, according to police and Maxwell's cousin, T'Shonda Davis.
"He called me back 10 minutes later and was like, 'Don't come,'" Davis recalled Sunday. "That's when everything started to occur."
Maxwell, 18, was trying to get the party crashers to leave his uncle's house in Chicago's Stony Island Park neighborhood when one of them shot him in the chest, Davis and police said.
Maxwell, who attended Chicago Vocational Career Academy and Rockford College, was pronounced dead shortly before midnight at Jackson Park Hospital, according to the Cook County medical examiners office.
Davis, 20, said she decided to drive over anyway and kept calling her cousin, only to get his voice mail.
Jamal Patterson, her boyfriend and Maxwell's good friend, wasn't answering either.
"Now I'm starting to worry," she said. "As I'm driving, my boyfriend called me back. He was like, 'You need to get over here fast. They just shot Dionte.'"
Two 16-year-olds are facing first-degree murder, armed home invasion, attempted home invasion and mob action in Maxwell's death, Chicago police spokesman Officer Daniel O'Brien said Sunday night. The 16-year-olds are being charged as adults.
O'Brien said it is department policy not to identify juvenile suspects, even if they are charged as adults.
Charles Southern, 19, of the 11000 block of South Vernon Avenue, also was charged Sunday night with first-degree murder, armed home invasion, attempted home invasion and mob action in Maxwell's death, police said.
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