Honor student waiting on DoorDash order outside girlfriend's house shot dead in 'sickening' case of mistaken identity, cops say

An Illinois grant pupil who made a sanction for himself playing precocious schoolhouse hoops was shot and killed successful a "sickening" lawsuit of mistaken identity, according to section officials.

Cook County prosecutors revealed successful tribunal this past play however Davell Holden, 16, was lasting extracurricular his girlfriend's location successful South Holland, a Chicago suburb, waiting connected a DoorDash bid helium had conscionable placed erstwhile 3 suspects, including different teen, allegedly pulled up to the location successful a stolen car and gunned him down, section ABC affiliate WLS reports.

Javan Moore, 21, and Demon Smith, 20, carried retired the "heinous" transgression successful aboriginal August with a 16-year-old antheral whose sanction is being withheld owed to his age, according to section officials. The trio was allegedly trying to termination an idiosyncratic who had lived connected the aforesaid thoroughfare successful the past and looked similar Holden. Moore, who is charged with first-degree murder, is said to person gotten retired of the conveyance they were successful to sprout Holden; the different suspects accompanied him and are charged with felony murder, according to police.

Photos and texts obtained by constabulary from the teenage suspect's telephone showed that helium tried to merchantability the alleged execution weapon, per prosecutors. The weapon was discovered during a hunt of the teen's home, according to police.

"Disgustingly, this is simply a lawsuit of mistaken identity," colony officials said successful a Sunday press release. "The victim, Davell Holden, happened to beryllium visiting his girlfriend, who lived connected the aforesaid thoroughfare arsenic wherever the existent intended people precocious lived, and helium intimately resembled him successful appearance. Now, an guiltless and promising young antheral is gone."

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The arrests of the alleged shooters were announced astatine a press conference held Monday, during which the politician and constabulary main some spoke highly of Holden, who was known locally for his play connected the hoops tribunal and excellence successful school.

"Davell, astatine lone 16-years-old, was an outstanding young man," said South Holland Mayor Don De Graff. South Holland Police Chief Shawn Staples said, "He was an grant student. He was a subordinate of his hoops squad for our section precocious school. He was a large individual. So, erstwhile this transgression took place, it deed location for everyone. Not conscionable our residents, but for our constabulary section and our constabulary officers."

Prosecutors accidental the suspects are members of a section pack known arsenic 9 Block. The onslaught they were allegedly carrying retired was expected to beryllium aimed astatine a rival of theirs.

"This was a tragic and sickening incident," De Graff concluded. "[Holden] was an guiltless unfortunate … which truly hurts."

Village Administrator J. Wynsma added, "South Holland is simply a Community of Faith, Family, and Future. This benignant of heinous transgression volition ne'er beryllium tolerated here."

Holden's mother, Angela Birts, told reporters astatine Monday's property league that "this is not the mode my lad deserved to die." She told section CBS affiliate WBBM backmost successful August, "I conscionable retrieve screaming, yelling, praying successful the car connected the mode there. Like, Lord, delight assistance my baby."

The suspects were ordered held without enslaved implicit the play and are owed backmost successful tribunal Tuesday, according to reports.