2 Men Charged After 1 Hurt In Shooting Outside Yorktown Mall

DUPAGE COUNTY, IL — A Kentucky man and a Chicago man are being held without bond after they were accused in connection with a shooting outside of the Yorktown Mall in Lombard that injured a woman.

Ronald Grundy, 22, was charged with multiple felony counts, as was Jakobi Kinsey, 24, of Chicago. Grundy and Kinsey were each charged with aggravated battery with a firearm and aggravated discharge of a firearm at a person or vehicle.

Police were called to the Yorktown Mall just after 3 p.m. on Nov. 11 for a report of shots fired near the mall's JC Penney parking lot. Grundy and Kinsey are accused of approaching two men and a woman who were in the mall and asking, "You good?" Police say Grundy was wearing a ski mask at the time and that the three people he and Kinsey approached then left the mall and went to their car.

Prosecutors say Grundy and Kinsey ran to a car, got in and drove toward the woman and two men. Grundy is accused of leaning out of the car's passenger window and firing shots at the trio, one of which hit the woman in her arm. Police say Grundy and Kinsey then fled in the the car they were driving.

Officers who arrived at the mall say they found five 9mm bullet casings. The woman who was injured was taken to a nearby hospital.

After an investigation, police took Kinsey into custody in Chicago the next day. Grundy was arrested in Cook County on Nov. 14.

“With the holiday shopping season just beginning, the allegations that these two defendants opened fire in the middle of the afternoon in the parking lot of a popular mall demonstrates a complete and utter disregard for public safety and the rule of law,” DuPage County State's Attorney Robert Berlin said in a news release.

Berlin added, “In DuPage County, public safety is our top priority and the public can rest assured that law enforcement throughout the County will be on high alert and well prepared
to protect our shoppers, merchants and restaurateurs from the type of violent behavior alleged today. Make no mistake, anyone who commits this type of violent crime in DuPage County will be apprehended, charged, aggressively prosecuted and, if found guilty, face a significant amount of time behind bars."

Grundy is set to appear in court again on Dec. 1 and Kinsey is scheduled to be arraigned on Dec. 2.