A Racine teenager who’s facing a murder charge said he fired into a crowd of young people in an alley because he thought they were members of a rival gang.
17 year-old Rytrell Earl was charged Tuesday with one count of 1st Degree Intentional Homicide and four counts of attempted murder.
Dead is 20 year-old Dashaun Jordan. He’d been walking home with friends from a fish fry late Sunday night when the group was met with a barrage of gunfire from a passing vehicle, according to a criminal complaint. The group scattered—with the exception of Jordan who’d been hit and later died.
Security camera video captured the suspect's vehicle.
Police arrested Earl, a known gang member, who said that he thought that the guys he’d seen were members of a rival gang and were armed.
Police denied that the victim was a gang member. And they believe that Earl is the only one who fired that night.
The Racine Interfaith Coalition will hold a prayer vigil for Jordan Sunday evening at 6. It'll be held at the scene of the shooting in the alley south of 16th Street between Phillips and Murray Avenues.
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