A South Side man has been charged with the 2014 fatal shooting of Richard Johnson of Riverdale man in the Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood.
Joshua Ford | Chicago Police
Joshua J. Ford, 25, was charged with one count of first-degree murder in connection with the shooting death of the 34-year-old on Sept. 21, 2014, in the 7700 block of South Stewart, Chicago Police announced Saturday.
Johnson was a passenger in a vehicle going eastbound on Stewart when he was shot in the head by someone on the streer about 3 a.m., police said at the time. He was taken to Saint Bernard Hospital and later transferred to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he died a day later.
An autopsy confirmed he died of a gunshot wound to the head, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Ford, of the 600 block of East 73rd Street, was ordered held on a $900,000 bond on Saturday, according to the Cook County sheriff’s office. He is due in court again Monday.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire