An Aurora man was charged with attempted murder Sunday, following a shooting and police stand-off that Aurora police said may have been over a woman.
Kenneth Newsome, 19, 1100 block of Homer Avenue, was one of two people charged following the incident that began in Montgomery Friday afternoon.
According to Aurora police reports, Newsome allegedly shot and injured a man in Montgomery who is believed to be the boyfriend of a woman he used to date. The victim was able to identify Newsome as his alleged shooter, Aurora police said.
Newsome and another man, Eduardo Correa Hernandez, 20, of Aurora, allegedly fled the shooting scene near Krug Elementary School in Montgomery, and took cover inside a home Hernandez was renting in the 1100 block of Homer Avenue in Aurora.
Dispatchers notified police that the suspects were possibly armed.
Police said that once inside the home, the suspects began closing the curtains and put a mattress in front of the front window..
“We evacuated approximately 10 houses on Homer and a couple of houses on Elliott and Douglas” during the incident, Montgomery Police Chief Daniel Meyers said. “There was no hostage situation.”
Tthe Aurora Police Department Special Response Team and additional negotiators were called to the scene to try and get the men out, Meyers said.
Officers from the Aurora and Oswego police departments, the Kane and Kendall County Sheriff’s Departments, and the Illinois State Police also responded.
After several hours of negotiations, the men came out of the house and were taken into police custody.
On Sunday, Hernandez and Newsome were charged. Newsome was charged with three counts of Class X felony attempted murder, three counts of Class X felony discharge of a firearm near a school and two counts of Class X felony battery with a firearm. He was also charged with felony unlawful use of a weapon, possession of a weapon without a FOID card, possession of ammunition without a FOID Card, and mob action.
Newsome also had warrants several outstanding warrants for his arrest, Aurora police said.
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Hernandez was charged with Class 4 felony mob action and misdemeanor possession of a weapon for having a knife, police said.