2 charged with allegedly shooting man during attempted armed robbery on Near North Side

A man and a teenage boy were charged in connection with the alleged shooting of a man during an attempted robbery in Streeterville on Friday night.

Chicago police said Marques Williams, 22, and the boy, 16, were arrested around 7:42 p.m. on Friday and charged with felony armed robbery with a firearm, attempted first-degree murder, attempted armed robbery with discharge of a firearm, aggravated vehicular hijacking with a firearm, aggravated battery with discharge of a firearm and aggravated attempted vehicular hijacking with a firearm.

Williams was also charged with felony possession of a weapon by a felon and aggravated fleeing. The 16-year-old was also charged with aggravated fleeing causing over $300 in property damage and a misdemeanor count of resisting a police officer.

Police said they were identified as the suspects who shot and seriously injured a 64-year-old man during an attempted armed robbery in a parking garage in the 400 block of East Illinois Street, near McClurg Court.

In that incident, police said the suspects demanded the victim's property, and when the victim refused, one of them pulled out a gun and fired one shot, hitting the victim in the side. Both suspects then fled the scene.

The victim was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital and was initially reported in good condition.  

Williams and the teen were also identified as the suspects who then took a vehicle at gunpoint from a 29-year-old man in the 200 block of East Grand Avenue.

Police said the suspects used that vehicle to lead officers on a chase that ended with a crash at 81st Street and Loomis Boulevard in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood. They were arrested at that scene about an hour after the carjacking.

Both are scheduled to appear at a detention hearing on Monday.