Two men charged with gang-related shooting outside Sec. of State facility

Bail was denied Friday for two men charged in a deadly gang-related shooting earlier this week outside a Secretary of State facility in suburban Bridgeview.

Matthew Givens and Cortez Hudson each face a count of first-degree murder for allegedly shooting 21-year-old Jawaun Davis in the brazen attack Wednesday afternoon in the facility’s parking lot at 7358 W. 87th St.

Givens, 23, and Hudson, 24, both reputed members of the Black Disciples, targeted Davis because he was a member of the rival Gangster Disciples, prosecutors said in court.

Davis, who was unarmed, had been waiting for several hours in a line that stretched outside the facility when Givens and Hudson arrived in a red Nissan Sentra, along with Hudson’s 6-year-old brother, prosecutors said.

The pair waited about a half hour, with one witness telling investigators that it appeared they were “scoping out” the facility, before Hudson approached Davis in line about 1:30 p.m. and fired at him multiple times with a 9 mm handgun, prosecutors said.

Just after, Givens walked up with a .40-caliber handgun that had been modified to be an automatic weapon and also fired at Davis, prosecutors said.

The two gunmen then allegedly drove away in the Sentra.

Davis was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn and later died of multiple gunshot wounds, authorities said.

After a chase, Givens and Hudson were taken into custody, and both also face a count of attempted vehicular hijacking.

Givens was free on bond at the time of the shooting for a pending residential burglary case, according to prosecutors. Hudson was previously convicted in two separate unlawful use of a weapon cases and has been arrested twice in domestic battery incidents since his parole on the gun charges in 2019.