CHICAGO - A 21-year-old man has been charged in connection to the murder of 12-year-old Marcel Wilson at an Englewood residence in January.
Jaran Hughes, of Chicago, was identified as the person who shot Marcel in the chest on Jan. 2, while he was sitting on a bed with a group of people in a back bedroom in the 5500 block of South Aberdeen Street.
Hughes has been charged with first-degree murder.According to prosecutors, Hughes had been kicked out of his girlfriends house on Jan.
2, and went over to the house where Marcel lived.The accused gunman and one of Marcel's older siblings have been friends since third grade, and consider each other "family." The sibling snuck Hughes into the house, prosecutors said.Marcel was inside of a bedroom playing a video game with his 13-year-old sister, who was sitting next to him.Marcel's older sibling, who was friends with Hughes, was on the phone with his headphones on.