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    ‘How can he do that?’: Police Superintendent David Brown appears to overstate links to mass shooting in Chicago

    by Annie Sweeney, Chicago Tribune May 13, 2022 5 minutes
    Officers work at the scene where five people were shot, one fatally, on the 4800 block of South Ada on May 10, 2022, in Chicago.

    CHICAGO — About 15 hours after a corner in the Back of the Yards neighborhood was sprayed with gunfire Tuesday, leaving one man dead and four others wounded, Chicago police Superintendent David Brown held a news conference to update the public on the mass shooting.

    Brown said a long-standing gang conflict had resulted in several shootings, including the one he was concentrating on, and said police knew how it started: A 28-year-old high-ranking gang member who had been “released recently” from federal prison and whose brother was fatally shot in April was a driver of the violence.

    In addition, just a month before that shooting, the man had been stopped in the Back of the Yards with a gun and was released on a $1,000 cash bond, Brown said.

    “He is free on cash bond, we believe, based on our intelligence, driving this retaliatory violence between two gangs for the

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