JOLIET — This week, the Will County State’s Attorney’s Office of Jim Glasgow filed felony charges against 25-year-old Joliet resident D’Amonta Barber and 22-year-old Romeoville’s Nevin McMurtry in connection with an early morning shooting at a house in the 1400 block of North Center Street in Joliet.
McMurty and Barber are accused by Joliet police of shooting their guns at a building they knew was occupied. A total of 46 shell casings were found in the street by Joliet police back around 5:30 a.m. on July 24.
This week, Joliet police arrested Barber and he’s in the Will County Jail facing charges of aggravated discharge of a firearm and one count of unlawful possession of a weapon by a felon apiece. McMurty has not been taken into custody as of Thursday.
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According to the prosecution’s petition to deny pretrial release for Barber and McMurtry:
Joliet police realized that in addition to the 46 shell casings in the middle of North Center Street, a house was shot into several times.
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A woman inside the house told Joliet police she was sleeping when she heard the gunshots. Another person in the house told the officers that his nephew had been fighting with Jeremiah Clayton on the internet.
Video surveillance obtained by Joliet police from a house on North Center Street showed two people walking down Center Street, standing in front of the house next door and firing their guns several times from the middle of the street.
The shooters left by walking through a yard.
According to the petition, Clayton, Barber and McMurtry and others were on Instagram Live right before the shooting. In their videos, which lasted more than an hour, Barber is holding what appears to be a rifle in the video and “video from earlier that night show Barber and McMurtry in a vehicle together and Barber holding what appears to be a black Glock semi-automatic gun with an extended magazine while making threats to various people.”
Prosecutors also maintained that after 2 a.m., in one of their Instagram Live videos, McMurtry is holding a gun with a flashlight attachment and hopping on one leg with a wrap on his leg.
“These videos were originally done as ‘live’ videos and both Barber and McMurtry are arguing with commenters on the videos,” court files show.
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Barber and McMurtry taunt the person who lives at the house in the 1400 block of North Center Street that was later the target of the 5:30 a.m. shooting of 46 rounds, according to prosecutor Tricia McKenna.
“Barber and McMurtry talk about blitzing the crib of Little David. Barber says he will sit by someone’s granny’s crib and shoot anyone,” McKenna pointed out. “McMurtry takes the wrap off his leg and says they pissed him off and someone is going to check tonight.”
McKenna’s petition to deny pretrial release noted that Barber and McMurtry’s phones appear to be together and traveling together at 2:22 a.m. and at 9 a.m., Clayton, Barber and McMurtry’s phones are all traveling together.
“Clearly … the defendant poses a specific threat to (person who lives at the Center Street house) the residents of (that house) and the community as a whole,” McKenna argued. “The defendant and his co-conspirator rapid fired 46 rounds of ammunition in the middle of a residential street in the very early morning hours.”
As for Jeremiah Clayton, age 24, he has remained in the Will County Jail on felony charges of aggravated fleeing since his apprehension by Joliet police July 27.
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