Man charged in Little Village double homicide after jewelry store armed robbery ordered detained
The man charged with shooting and killing a father and son following a jewelry store robbery last November in Little Village will remain in custody until trial.
Muhammad Thomas, 35, is charged with two counts of murder, three counts of armed robbery, two counts of aggravated battery, one count of attempted vehicular hijacking, and one count of burglary.
Police said Thomas was arrested on Tuesday in St. Louis, and was extradited back to Chicago. He did not appear in court Friday; prosecutors said he is in the hospital for medical issues and narcotics withdrawal.
According to prosecutors, at the time of his arrest police in St. Louis found Thomas in possession of two guns. Shell casings from those guns matched the ones found at the double homicide in Little Village. Prosecutors said that evidence, along with DNA and cell phone data, placed Thomas him at the crime scene.
Last fall, Chicago police said, shortly before 6 p.m. on Nov. 8, Thomas robbed a jewelry store at gunpoint in the 3800 block of West 26th Street. Surveillance video from that night shows a man wearing a Blackhawks jersey entering the store, then stumbling out before a struggle spilled into the street.
Police said that as he tried to get away, Thomas got into a fight with two men and shot both of them. On the video more than 20 shots can be heard.
In court, prosecutors said Thomas had two juveniles waiting inside a white Maserati while he went into the store where he tried to steal jewelry in display cases before running out.
Luis Alamo, 25, and his 63-year-old father Faustino Alamo Dominguez gave chase and there was an exchange of gunfire in which the two were shot multiple times, prosecutors said. The men were taken to Mt. Sinai Hospital where they died.
Prosecutors said one of the juveniles also fired shots from inside the car that struck Alamo Dominguez.
Police later found the car torched, but were able to match fingerprints back to Thomas. Prosecutors said one of the juveniles was later arrested by police for another crime and told detectives about Thomas' involvement in the shooting.
He also has been charged with shooting and seriously injuring a 26-year-old man in the West Loop on July 28, 2023, and with an armed robbery in Little Village on July 16, 2024.
CBS News Chicago Investigators found Thomas had a lengthy and often violent criminal record dating back nearly 20 years. Among his crimes, court records show, as a teenager Thomas was sentenced to prison for damage he did at a school. He went back to prison in 2018 for an aggravated battery in which court documents say he used a metal lamp to "bludgeon" a man, leaving him with permanent injuries.
When U.S. Marshals tracked him down in St. Louis, he had multiple warrants out for his arrest, including one in Lake County. There are multiple court cases pending against him now.
