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Edward Bass (left) and Khalil Powell | Oak Forest police <\/p>\n
OAK FOREST, Ill.<\/strong> – Two Chicago<\/a> men have been charged with murder in connection with a drive-by shooting<\/a> over the weekend in southwest suburban Oak Forest.<\/a><\/p>\n Edward Bass, 32, and Khalil Powell, 30, are accused in the Saturday killing of Latrell Williams, a 30-year-old from Alsip.<\/a><\/p>\n The backstory:<\/p>\n The shooting happened around 4:47 p.m. at 167th Street and Cicero Avenue, according to Oak Forest Police.<\/p>\n Police said officers responded around 4:47 p.m. to reports of gunfire near 167th Street and Cicero Avenue and found Williams with multiple gunshot wounds to the left side of his body. An off-duty medical professional rendered aid before Williams was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center, where he later died.<\/p>\n Investigators determined Williams had been stopped in a median lane at the intersection when another vehicle pulled alongside and someone inside fired multiple rounds into his car. The suspects then fled eastbound on 167th Street toward Interstate 57.<\/p>\n Authorities said Bass and Powell were later identified as the suspects. The case involved a multi-agency investigation, including the South Suburban Major Crimes Task Force, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Illinois State Police and the Cook County State\u2019s Attorney\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n What’s next:<\/p>\n Both men were charged with first-degree murder and are scheduled to attend a pretrial release hearing on Tuesday at the Bridgeview Courthouse.<\/p>\n The Source:<\/b> The information in this report came from Oak Forest police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.<\/p>\n Oak Forest<\/a>Alsip<\/a>Crime and Public Safety<\/a>News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Edward Bass (left) and Khalil Powell | Oak Forest police OAK FOREST, Ill. – Two Chicago men…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":728254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5124],"tags":[301497,960,5404,6082,5386,1818,50,14702,68],"class_list":["post-728253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago","tag-alsip","tag-chicago","tag-cook-county","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-il","tag-illinois","tag-news","tag-oak-forest","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116405337280569806","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=728253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/728254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=728253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=728253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=728253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}