A person who shot a pregnant lady after she rejected his advances in a suburban grocery retailer was sentenced to just about half a century in jail, the DuPage County State’s Legal professional introduced Friday.
42-year-old former Chicago man Lawrence Grant was sentenced to 48 years within the Illinois Division of Corrections Friday, months after a four-day-long trial concluded in late Might.
Round 7 p.m. on January 28, 2022, Willowbrook police responded to the scene of a crashed car on Route 83 and located a pregnant lady with a gunshot wound in her again, authorities stated.
The girl was transported to a neighborhood hospital the place the infant was delivered whereas she was in surgical procedure. She was eight months pregnant on the time. Each the sufferer and her child survived and recovered, police stated.
Police realized that previous to the crash, the sufferer, one other particular person and Grant had been engaged in a “verbal altercation that ultimately turned bodily” in a grocery retailer situated on the 6300 block of Kingery Freeway, authorities stated.
The altercation began after “advances” by Grant had been rejected by the sufferer, DuPage County States’s Legal professional Robert Berlin stated.
“After having his advances rejected by the sufferer and turning a verbal altercation with the sufferer’s boyfriend bodily, Mr. Grant continued to escalate the matter with almost deadly penalties,” Berlin stated. “We’re all very grateful that the lady and her unborn baby survived this terrifying ordeal.”
After the altercation, the three left in separate automobiles, police stated. Nonetheless, Grant adopted the sufferer as she traveled southbound on Route 83.
Whereas following the sufferer, Grant shot at her, hanging her car a number of instances and her as soon as within the again — inflicting her to crash, police stated.
Grant was situated hours later on the College of Chicago Hospital the place authorities say he was admitted on an unrelated matter. The car he was driving was discovered on fireplace roughly one block from the hospital.
He was taken into custody instantly after his discharge, authorities stated.
The jury discovered Grant responsible of 1 depend of tried first-degree homicide, one depend of aggravated battery with a firearm and two counts of aggravated discharge of a firearm — all Class X felonies.
Grant has remained in custody on the DuPage County Jail since his bond was set at $2 million in February 2022.
