Police believe teen killed 4 as revenge

CHICAGO — Chicago police believe a teenage gang member shot and killed four men at a South Side restaurant last week to avenge the fatal shooting of his father a few blocks away the previous night.

Police and prosecutors said three eyewitnesses identified 19-year-old Maurice Harris as the lone gunman who killed the four in a “hail of gunfire” outside Nadia Fish and Chicken restaurant at 75th Street and Coles Avenue at 3:30 p.m. A day earlier, Mr. Harris’ father, 37-year-old Jerry Jacobs, was shot and killed at 79th Street and South Phillips Avenue.

The quadruple homicide was among seven killings in the South Shore neighborhood on March 30 — a spate of violence that came just as Chicago police were touting a slight drop in homicides and shootings for the first quarter of 2017.

During a Wednesday morning news conference at police headquarters, Chicago police Cmdr. Brendan Deenihan said a double slaying that occurred hours after the quadruple homicide may be connected, but he would not elaborate.

Mr. Harris, who is charged with four counts of first-degree murder, was ordered held without bond. His attorneys had asked Judge Adam Bourgeois to set a bond in hopes that Mr. Harris could attend his father’s funeral, but the judge refused. Mr. Harris was arrested Tuesday afternoon in south suburban Blue Island.