Suspect charged in shooting that left man partially paralyzed

A Chicago man was arrested late last week in connection with a January shooting on the city’s South Side that injured two men and left one of them paralyzed from the waist down.
Jermaine Roberts, 23, used a semi-automatic handgun to shoot one man in the left foot and a second man in the back on Jan. 18 in Chicago’s Englewood neighborhood.
The second victim a 20-year-old from Dolton was taken to St. Bernard Hospital in Englewood after he was struck multiple times, causing paralysis from the waist down.
After someone identified Roberts in a photo spread, police learned he was due to appear in court on March 29, police reports state. Officers arrested him at the courthouse on the 100 block of West 51st Street as he was leaving the courtroom.
Roberts, of the 1200 block of West 74th Street, is charged with two counts of aggravated battery/discharge of a firearm, both felonies. He has two felony drug convictions and a pending case for an unlawful use of a weapon by a felon charge