An Indiana man is being held in Cook County Jail on charges stemming from a shooting last month in Lansing that left two people wounded, according to authorities and court documents.
David D. Lira, 21, of Hammond, is scheduled to appear in Cook County court in Markham on Tuesday, charged with attempted first-degree murder and aggravated battery/firearm in connection with a March 15 shooting that injured two people, according to police and a court spokesperson.
Investigators recovered more than a dozen 9 mm casings from the alley in the 17100 block of Park Avenue, police said.
The two who were shot suffered what police called superficial wounds and were hospitalized for their injuries.
Lira was ordered held after a March 16 initial court hearing, and documents filed in the case said he fired 13 shots, hitting one victim in the thigh and another in the arm
According to court documents, Lira is alleged to have been in an argument with two people, then went inside a house and retrieved a gun.
A police report says the shooting took place sometime before 6 a.m. March 15, when police received multiple 911 calls about shots being fired in the 17100 block of Park Avenue.
The victims told police they were walking down an alley when somebody in a vehicle began shooting at them, and that no prior altercation had occurred.
They were taken to Community Hospital in Munster for treatment, according to the report.
