By JORDAN OWEN
Chicago Sun-Times Wire
Dion Robinson | Chicago Police
A 27-year-old man has been charged with killing Luis Gonzalez and leaving another man paralyzed another in a shooting in the Humboldt Park neighborhood in March.
Dion Robinson faces one count of first-degree murder, one count of attempted murder, and one count of unlawful use of a machine gun by a felon, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County state’s attorney’s office.
Gonzalez, 25; and a 22-year-old passenger were driving around the neighborhood about 6 p.m. March 30 because the younger man was test-driving a car that Gonzalez wanted to sell him, prosecutors said at Robinson’s bond hearing Thursday.
During the test drive, the younger man saw Robinson driving a light-colored car and “mean mugging” them, prosecutors said.
A few minutes later, Gonzalez and the 22-year-old were sitting in the parked black 2003 Chevy Malibu in the 3000 block of West Wabansia when Robinson parked his car, got out and walked up to the driver’s side of the car, prosecutors said.
He walked at a diagonal towards the victims, who were sitting in the backseat, then fired multiple shots from the middle of the street, prosecutors said.
Gonzalez, of the 1600 block of North Albany, was shot twice in the head and twice in the neck, and was pronounced dead at the scene at 6:35 p.m., authorities said.
The younger man was shot twice in the left shoulder and twice in the left back, and remains paralyzed from the waist down, prosecutors said.
Twelve spent .45 caliber cartridges were recovered at the scene.
The surviving victim and an eyewitness identified Robinson as the shooter, prosecutors said.
Another witness saw him get out of his car seconds before the shooting, heard several gunshots, then saw him get back into his car with a black object in his hand and drive away.
Robinson was arrested Tuesday after parking a Hertz rental car in the 4100 block of Washington Boulevard, prosecutors said. Chicago Police officers walked up to take him into custody and he ran, hopping a fence into a backyard, where he was met by other officers.
A black TEC-9 automatic firearm was recovered from the rental car, but was not the weapon used in the shooting, prosecutors said.
Prosecutors said Robinson did not know the victims before the shooting.
He lives in south suburban Glenwood and his mother is a pediatric nurse, his public defender said. He has worked at a printing company in the past.
Judge Maria Kuriakos Ciesil ordered Robinson held without bond.