Investigators used footage from dozens of surveillance cameras last summer to track a stolen Dodge Charger and bring charges against a man on parole in connection with a fatal shooting in Humboldt Park, Cook County prosecutors said Thursday.
By following the car in the footage, detectives were able to identify 25-year-old Michael Lampley as one of three gunmen involved in the July 25 attack on Shawn Brown, prosecutors said.
Brown, 31, was sitting in a car that afternoon in the 3800 block of West Thomas Street when Lampley and another man got out of a Dodge Charger armed with rifles and opened fire, prosecutors said citing multiple surveillance cameras.
A 20-year-old man who was standing near Brown’s car when the shooting began ran and was allegedly pursued by Lampley and the second gunman, as a third gunman then also began firing at Brown’s car.
Lampley and his cohort were not able to catch the 20-year-old, so they returned to Brown’s car and fired into it again at close range before they ran back to the Dodge and made their escape, prosecutors said.
Brown suffered multiple gunshot wounds, including to the head, and died.
Using footage from 52 surveillance cameras, investigators tracked the stolen Dodge to Lincolnwood, where three gunmen and a driver were seen getting out. The group was recorded throwing multiple items away in a residential trash can before abandoning the car and walking to a nearby Walgreens.
Detectives were able to recover latex gloves, a container of sanitizer wipes and an empty water bottle from the trash; they also found a ski mask in the street nearby.
From the Walgreens, an Uber was requested from an account allegedly belonging to Lampley’s girlfriend. The Uber driver picked up the group and drove to Lampley’s home in Bridgeport, prosecutors said.
In October, when state corrections officials conducted a compliance check at that home, they found Lampley was no longer living there.
When the officials spoke to Lampley, he said he was living at a new address on the South Side, prosecutors said. Officials then went to that home, where they allegedly saw a gun in a kitchen cabinet, a second handgun in Lampley’s girlfriend’s purse and recovered a rifle.
While at the home, Lampley was allegedly seen driving a stolen maroon Chrysler 300 in the area. He was placed in custody soon after and charged with murder, attempted murder, being an armed habitual offender and possession of a stolen vehicle.
Prosecutors said several witnesses identified Lampley from surveillance video of the shooting, including by his facial tattoos, and that items of clothing found in his home during a search matched clothing that one of the shooters wore.
Further, a search warrant executed on his phone showed it followed the same path the gunmen took from the slaying to the Walgreens and to Lampley’s home.
Prosecutors did not mention whether any of the weapons or other evidence collected had been connected to the slaying.
A private defense attorney for Lampley said he was a father of two young children and worked for a home remodeler.
Judge Charles Beach ordered Lampley held without bail.
He was expected back in court Nov. 9.
