People v. Jefferson

In the afternoon of June 14,1987,13-year-old Tamara Washington was shot and killed while she played jump rope with friends outside her grandmother’s house at 6840 South Winchester in the City of Chicago. Defendant and his half-brother, Freddie Jefferson (Freddie), were arrested and charged by indictment in connection with the shooting. Their trials were severed and we affirmed Freddie’s murder conviction in People v. Jefferson (1992), 227 Ill. App. 3d 491, 592 N.E.2d 134, appeal denied (1992), 145 Ill. 2d 639, 596 N.E.2d 633.

At defendant’s trial, Dr. Nancy Jones, deputy medical examiner,…