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Chicago rapper held on federal gun charge 3 years after charges in quadruple murder dropped

Evelyn Johnson is comforted March 31, 2017, near a cross bearing the name of her nephew Emmanuel Stokes at a memorial for four shooting victims outside the Nadia Fish and Chicken restaurant in Chicago's South Shore neighborhood.

CHICAGO — A Chicago drill rapper previously charged in a high-profile 2017 quadruple murder case that was eventually dropped has been ordered held without bond on new federal gun charges alleging he threw a loaded, fully automatic pistol out a window during a police raid on Friday.

Maurice Harris, 26, who goes by the moniker “Drench,” was charged in a criminal complaint made public Monday with possession of a machine gun.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Gabriel Fuentes ordered him held pending

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