Three people face reckless endangerment charges in a neighborhood shooting on Beloit’s west side that sent bullets through car windows, leaving a woman bloodied by broken glass.
Police say 27-year-old Villa Park, Illinois resident Cher-Lexus Payton and 29-year-old Khardija Spence of Beloit face two counts each of first-degree reckless endangering safety.
33-year-old Rockford man Carl Tate Junior is accused of being party to the shooting, also a felony.
Two women reported someone in a gray Ford Escape shot at them as they were parking in the 800 block of 8th Street, just a few blocks west of the Shirland Avenue bridge, just after midnight on May 18. It happened after the women say they shouted at a man wearing “shiny, ‘Bedazzled'” pants, and a woman in a red dress who they said were dancing in the street, blocking traffic.
The shooting sent at least four .380-caliber bullets through the windows of the women’s car and another car next to it, leaving one woman’s face cut by flying shards of glass.
Police say they found a .380 handgun with a bullet jammed in the chamber underneath the seat of a dented up gray Ford Escape that officers saw Spence, Payton and a shiny pants-wearing Carl Tate driving nearby.
Police spotted the trio just moments after officers had heard 4 or 5 gunshots ring out. Police say the pulled the group’s vehicle over because they appeared to be fleeing south into Illinois.
