Chicago police have made an arrest in connection with the murder of two teenage boys as they left their high school in the Loop one year ago. Tommie Coleman, 22, will appear for a detention hearing on Saturday.

Around 12:25 p.m. on January 24, 2024, Monterio Williams, 17, Robert Boston, 16, and other students exited Innovations High School in the first block of North Wabash. As they did, two cars pulled up, and a group of people emerged from the vehicles, police said. At least two people who got out of the car began shooting toward the students, according to CPD.
Williams was shot multiple times, and Boston was shot in the chest, according to a CPD media statement. Both boys succumbed to their wounds at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.

A bullet also passed through a 25-year-old woman’s coat, but she escaped injury. She studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, according to her online presence.

A high-ranking Chicago Police Department official told the Chicago Tribune that the shooting appeared to be an “ambush,” the paper reported.

Coleman is the first person to face charges in connection with the murders. CPD said in a media statement that he “participated” in the shooting but did not reveal exactly what investigators believe he did. Those details will be revealed during his court appearance on Saturday.
He is charged with two counts of first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder, failure to register as a gun offender, aggravated discharge of a firearm toward an occupied vehicle, and being a felon in possession of a firearm with previous convictions.