A sub shop worker has been ordered released on bond with electronic home monitoring after authorities said he shot and paralyzed a 15-year-old boy who robbed him at gunpoint in a drug deal moments earlier.
Jonathan A. Ramos, 22, was charged with aggravated battery for the shooting that happened at about 6:40 p.m. Wednesday in the 3700 block of West Lawrence Street in the Albany Park neighborhood, authorities said.
On Saturday, Judge Donald Pararese Jr. ordered Ramos, of the Avondale neighborhood, held on $100,000 pending his release on home electronic monitoring. Ramos is scheduled to return to court next Wednesday.
Police said the incident began when Ramos went to the 3800 block of West Lawrence Street to sell the teen 8 grams of marijuana. The teen then pulled a handgun and robbed Ramos before fleeing on foot, Assistant State’s Attorney Julian Brevard said.
Ramos then chased after the teen, tackling the youth about a block away, prosecutors said. Ramos began punching the teen before taking away the .45-caliber handgun he was carrying and pistol-whipping the boy with it. Ramos then stood over the teen and shot him in the back, authorities said.
The teen was first taken to St. Francis Hospital in Evanston before being transferred to Lurie Children’s Hospital, authorities said. The boy is paralyzed from the chest down, Brevard told the court.
Ramos was also charged with manufacture and delivery of cannabis because he planned to sell marijuana to the teen.
Before setting bail, the judge, seeking clarity, asked whether the teen who was shot was also the offender, which prosecutors affirmed. Ramos, a clerk at a Northwest Side sub shop, has no prior criminal record.
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