A 17-year-old boy faces murder charges in connection with the fatal shooting of retired CPD explosives technician Larry Neuman earlier this month, Chicago police announced on Friday.
The teen, whose identity wasn’t immediately released, is allegedly one of two people to approach and kill Neuman, 73, on June 20. He was charged as an adult and was expected to appear for a detention hearing before a judge on Saturday at the Leighton Criminal Court Building, police said.
Authorities have already charged 16-year-old Lazarious Watt, on Monday. A judge ordered Watt held pending trial Tuesday.
Prosecutors said at Watt’s detention hearing that he was one of two teens who approached Neuman while he was paying a person for cutting his grass. A witness said Neuman reached for his own weapon and shot once at the pair as Watt took aim.
Neuman was shot multiple times in the chest and leg and was pronounced dead shortly afterward at Stroger Hospital. The Cook County medical examiner’s office ruled his death a homicide.
Police arrested the second suspect in the 2400 block of East 75th Street on Thursday. In addition to two separate counts of first-degree murder, the teen was also charged with a single count of armed robbery in connection with a robbery that occurred in November 2023 in the Garfield Park neighborhood, according to police.