Overview
- Cook County Judge James Costello ordered Marquese D. Hill, 18, and Marshawn Sanders, 17, detained pending trial following a Saturday detention hearing.
- Both face two counts of first-degree murder plus aggravated vehicular hijacking, attempted aggravated vehicular hijacking and aggravated discharge of a firearm; Hill also faces aggravated battery of a police officer and charges tied to a Jan. 10 carjacking.
- Authorities say the spree began just before 4 a.m. Feb. 11 in Lakeview with the fatal shooting of Darwin Tirado, 22, and continued to Oakland, where Damon Kellum, 45, was killed about an hour later.
- Prosecutors allege the pair then attempted to carjack a 70-year-old at a Fuller Park gas station before stealing a Chevrolet Malibu in Chatham; the Malibu was later recovered in Gary, Indiana.
- Investigators cite CTA and city camera footage and Sanders’s phone geolocation to track movements, and court filings note Hill had a December felony case dropped roughly 36 hours before the Feb. 11 crimes.