After serving less than a year for an illegal gun conviction, a 30-year-old man was arrested Friday while leaving a downstate prison and charged with first-degree murder in an unrelated fatal shooting in North Lawndale nearly two years ago.
During his initial court hearing Sunday, prosecutors said Devon Harper admitted to the Sept. 20, 2020, attack when investigators from Chicago interviewed him earlier this year while he was still incarcerated in the Illinois Department of Corrections. Harper allegedly told the detectives that he gunned down 46-year-old Myrio Shields because he believed Shields had killed his friend two months earlier.
