Kelsky Patterson / Photo from Cook County Sheriff’s office
A South Side man already jailed for a North Side shooting has now been charged with murder for an August attack that killed one man and wounded four others outside an Uptown church.
Kelsky Patterson, 20, was charged with one count of first-degree murder, two counts of attempted first-degree murder and two counts of aggravated battery/discharge of a firearm in connection with the Aug. 19 shooting outside the Uptown Baptist Church in the 4500 block of North Sheridan Road, authorities said.
Patterson is accused of killing Darius Oliver, who died four days after the shooting at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, authorities said.
Oliver, 21, of the 500 block of West 14th Place, was one of five people wounded in the shooting, authorities said. The other four survived.
Michael Allen, senior pastor of the nearby Uptown Baptist Church, Tweeted at the time that about 20 gunshots were fired outside of the church during its Monday night meal for the homeless.
Patterson was charged in September in connection with another shooting a few blocks away that wounded two people on Aug. 31, police said.
He faces two counts of aggravated battery and discharge of a firearm for shooting a 14-year-old boy and 22-year-old man while sitting on his bike at the corner of West Wilson Avenue and North Broadway, police said. He was ordered held on $800,000 bond Sept. 26 and has remained in Cook County Jail.
Patterson, of the 4600 block of South Drexel Avenue, is expected to appear in bond court on the new charges Thursday.
— Sun-Times Media Wire