Although Cruthird and Taylor eventually gave statements implicating Smith, they did not mention him in their initial discussions with police shortly after the shootings. The Chevette was not examined by police when O’Brian initially found it. The car then disappeared until it was eventually found a year and a half later.
DRIVER DETECTIVE KEY 8.1.0.3 LICENSE
The following day, O’Brian found a gray Chevette with bullet holes in it that had a temporary license plate identifying Ivan Smith as the owner. Two detectives investigating the shootings, James O’Brian and Joseph Stehlik, found a taxi matching the descriptions given by witnesses in an abandoned lot nearby, although no fingerprints were found inside. There were several witnesses who identified the taxi but there were mixed reports on who was driving the taxi. A few minutes later, the same taxi was reportedly used in a second drive-by shooting, killing John Coleman and Gregory Archibald. Rhenardo Bussle later died of his gunshot wounds.
DRIVER DETECTIVE KEY 8.1.0.3 WINDOWS
Cruthird stated that three cars drove up to the building, and the taxi, which was in the middle of the other two cars, rolled down its windows and began shooting at them before driving away. One of the bodyguards shot at Smith’s car from inside the building and Smith reportedly drove away and said he would be back.Īround 10 or 11 that night, George Cruthird, and Jerome Taylor were selling drugs in front of the same building with 13-year-old Rhenardo Bussle, who was Taylor’s cousin. On the evening of August 7, 1991, Smith, a member of the Black Disciples street gang, drove by a building in the territory of the Gangster Disciples gang – a rival gang – in a Chevette and yelled a Black Disciples slogan while throwing up a gang sign. Ivan Smith, age 18, was arrested in November 1991 in Ripley, Tennessee for two gang-related shootings in Chicago that left three dead and three others injured.
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