A Chicago woman has been charged in connection with a west suburban mall shooting that wounded two men July 3, officials said.
Jasmine Holloway, 26 and a resident of the city’s Near West Side, allegedly shot her boyfriend and another man during an argument at the North Riverside Park Mall, prosecutors said. She was arrested Monday and faces one count of aggravated battery with a firearm, according to an announcement from the village of North Riverside.
According to a North Riverside police report, Holloway and her boyfriend, who was listed as a co-defendant in court documents, ran into another man inside a sports store in the mall. The two men recognized each other from a previous dispute and got into a fight. Police said Holloway’s boyfriend took a gun from her purse, but Holloway was the person to fire the weapon after he dropped it during the fight.
Holloway allegedly fired a round that hit her boyfriend in the chest and the other man in the arm after her boyfriend had told her to “shoot and kill,” per the police report. Holloway holds a FOID card and a concealed carry permit, police said. Authorities had not charged Holloway’s boyfriend with a crime as of Friday night, according to Cook County court records.
Cook County Circuit Court Judge Elizabeth Ciaccia-Lezza on Wednesday ordered Holloway held pending trial, records show. Holloway is set to return to court Aug. 2.