Frankfort Man Charged in I-290 Shooting

FRANKFORT, IL -- A Frankfort man was charged this week in connection with a shooting on the I-290 expressway last year. Allante James Sewell, 23 was arrested on Tuesday by Will County Sheriff’s Police, according to a report from the Elmhurst Patch. He was charged with one felony count of aggravated discharge of a firearm for allegedly firing two rounds from a semi-automatic handgun at another vehicle in the eastbound lanes of the highway near North Avenue in Elmhurst at around 8:30 p.m. on Oct. 31, 2016.

One of the bullets struck the driver’s side door of the victim’s vehicle and the other was not located, police said.

Sewell was already in custody at the Will County Jail on unrelated charges of domestic battery and resisting a police officer when he was charged with the expressway shooting.

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