Man shoots at crowd, wounding 2, after sister gets in fight

Upon hearing that his sister had been in a fight at a bus stop nearby, a Chicago man fired 12 rounds into a crowd of people he blamed for the altercation, hitting a 17-year-old boy in the hand and grazing a woman,.

Witnesses identified Montel Jones, 19, as the gunman who directed a fusillade of shots from a .45-caliber semiautomatic handgun at a crowd in the 7700 block of South Essex Avenue in the South Shore neighborhood about 4:30 p.m. Friday, . 

On Sunday, Cook County Judge James Brown ordered Jones held in lieu of $500,000 bond. He is charged with aggravated battery with a firearm
The boy hit in the right hand didn’t appear to have participated in the fight that preceded the shooting. He was treated and released from a local hospital, along with a 20-year-old woman whose nose was grazed by a bullet.