A man was charged after a shooting that left one man dead and another critically wounded Sunday night in the Rogers Park neighborhood.
Cleophus Rufus was arrested less than an hour after the shooting in the 7500 block of North Damen Avenue and charged with first-degree murder, first-degree attempted murder and aggravated battery, Chicago police said.
Rufus, 33, is accused of participating in the fatal shooting of Andre Shearer, 55, and critically wounding a 31-year-old man, police said. Both men were found around 9:45 p.m. Sunday night.
Shearer, of Evanston, was shot in the neck and head and was taken to St. Francis Hospital in Evanston where he was pronounced dead, police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said. The younger man was shot in the chest and in each leg and was taken to the same hospital in critical condition.
Rufus, of the West Ridge neighborhood, was scheduled to appear for a detention hearing Wednesday.