A Gary man was arrested with a small bag of fentanyl two months after he was released from prison for shooting and paralyzing a 13-year-old girl, court records show.
Shamar Walker, 23, was charged Friday with possession of a narcotic drug, a Level 6 felony, and misdemeanor resisting law enforcement.
He is in custody, held on a $1,500 cash surety bond.
A Lake County Sheriff’s Deputy pulled Walker over around noon Jan. 23 on the 3400 block of Pierce Street in Gary.
He got out and ran; he was arrested two blocks west on the 3400 block of Lincoln Street. Walker said he took off since he had a suspended license.
Cops found a small bag of brown powder that later tested positive for two grams of fentanyl. Walker said he was borrowing his cousin’s pants.
Walker accepted an aggravated battery plea deal last year after he admitted to shooting and paralyzing a 13-year-old girl who declined to have sex with him.
The agreement was for 5 years in prison and another 5 years probation. He was originally charged with an attempted murder case.
Judge Samuel Cappas threatened to squash the deal in January 2024 after Walker appeared to show little remorse and said in a presentence investigation report, saying he only took it to get home to his mother.
In that case, police were called around midnight Jan. 25, 2020 to the intersection of East 21st Avenue and Martin Luther King Drive. A witness flagged officers down to a girl on her back.
Earlier that evening, she was at Walker’s sister’s apartment, where he asked her for sex. He and the girl had a past sexual relationship, telling him she was 15, charges state.
They got into an argument, she grabbed her purse and started walking home. Walker followed behind her, asking “why she was doing this to him,” documents state.
She called him a “little boy” telling him to go away, before hearing a gunshot and falling to the ground, hitting her head, charges state.
University of Chicago doctors told her mother the bullet severed the girl’s spine, lodging in her T-2 vertebrae, charges state. No surgery would be done. The girl would never walk again and needs assisted living, charging documents say doctors told her.
After credit for time served, Walker ended up serving 10 months in prison.
Michelle L. Quinn contributed.
