Lil Reese has been released from a Houston-area prison where has been held for the last seven months stemming from an assault case, HipHopDX has confirmed.
On the evening of November 13th, Chicago rapper Lil Reese (real name Tavares Taylor) was identified as one of three individuals involved in a shooting in Chicago's Loop over a car dispute.
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More details concerning the shooting of Chicago rapper Lil Reese are coming to light.
Reese, born Tavares Taylor, was shot during a shootout on Sat., May 15, along with two other individuals in a parking garage on 6 West Grand Avenue in Chicago. Initially believed to be shot in the thigh, an incident report from the Chicago Police Department confirms the rapper was instead grazed in the eye during the shooting.
New details appear to spell out a motive for the incident. The shooting seems to have been triggered by a dispute over a stolen vehicle, according to a report by
Prior to the shooting, a man reported his Dodge Durango had been stolen. With the use of a GPS tracking device, the owner tracked the vehicle down to the location of the Grand Plaza Parking garage downtown. The owner told police he tried to detain the occupants of the vehicle when someone started shooting, hitting the Durango and causing it to crash. Police sources tell the paper the occupants of the vehicle then got out and exchanged gunfire with someone. Police discovered two guns in the vehicle.
48 shot in Chicago over the weekend, at least 6 of them fatally
By Sun-Times Media Wire
CHICAGO - At least six people were killed and 42 others were wounded over the weekend in Chicago as gun violence continues its sharp rise from last year. A 2-year-old girl and a 13-year-old boy were among those shot, as well as two uniformed Chicago police officers.
The number of people shot was almost double what it was last weekend, when five people were killed and 21 others hurt in gun violence across the city.
As of Monday morning, at least 1,187 people had been shot in the city this year and there have been at least 214 homicides. That’s a sharp rise from last year, when 886 were shot over the same period and there were 187 homicides.
13-year-old boy critically hurt
The boy was on the sidewalk about 7:55 a.m. Sunday in the 3700 block of South Wood Street when a vehicle approached and someone inside opened fire, police said.
He was struck in the head and neck and taken to Stroger Hospital in critical condition, police said.
Chicago police officers shot
Two Chicago police officers were shot and the suspected gunman was wounded during an exchange of gunfire Sunday morning in Lawndale on the West Side.
The officers responded to a ShotSpotter alert about 7:20 a.m. in the 1400 block of South Lawndale Avenue and saw a 45-year-old man in a vacant alley nearby, Chicago Police Supt. David Brown reported during news briefings outside Mount Sinai Hospital, where the officers were treated and released.