A 21-year-old man who prosecutors said carjacked a woman in Little Village while already on electronic monitoring for another case received an effective eight-year sentence after pleading guilty to three separate counts on Friday.
Khalil Ingram addressed the carjacking claims by pleading guilty to wrongful restraint and receiving a six-year jail sentence, according to documents. He also pleaded guilty to aggravated unauthorized use of a weapon, which resulted in a sequential two-year sentence, as well as aggravated battery on a peace officer, which resulted in a concurrent six-year term. Cook County Judge Mary Margaret Brosnahan imposed the punishments.
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The hijacking claims resulted from an April 2023 incident in which prosecutors claim Ingram was wearing an ankle monitor for a pending felony firearms charge when he targeted a 29-year-old woman.
After parking in the 2500 block of West Cermak Road, the woman was on the phone with her mother when Ingram unlocked her car door, ordered her out, and demanded her handbag twice, according to prosecutors. The woman refused, but prosecutors claim Ingram drove away in her car with her stuff inside.
Among the goods in the vehicle were the victim’s AirPods, which Chicago police used to locate the automobile within hours. When they discovered it, Ingram was inside. Detectives found that the GPS data from his ankle monitor matched the stolen AirPods and car’s route during and after the hijacking.
During an initial court appearance, prosecutors stated that Ingram had seven juvenile adjudications, including three robberies. They said he was on youth parole for a carjacking in 2021 when the Little Village incident happened.
With exemplary behavior, Ingram will serve half of his eight-year sentence. Ingram will further reduce his four-year sentence by earning 1,005 days of credit while in jail.
