If you’re a decent driver in Chicago, not only do you have to negotiate Olympic-level potholes and endless construction, but thanks to No Cash Bail, you have to deal with road-raging drivers who shoot at the objects of their ire.  Take the two fine gents pictured above, Maurice Jones, left, and Kevin Reynoso.  Photos courtesy Chicago Police Department.

Why do decent drivers have to deal with deadly drama?  Because under No Cash Bail, judges feel like they have to release these perps.

Does it matter that these violent thugs with guns aren’t legally able to pack pistols?  Of course not.  In bad guy minds everyone carries in Chicago.

From CWB Chicago:

CHICAGO — Twice in recent weeks, prosecutors have asked judges to detain drivers accused of firing guns during traffic altercations in Chicago. Both times, the judges rejected the requests and sent the accused drivers home on ankle monitors.

In one case, police responded to calls of shots fired and met with a 36-year-old man who said another driver opened fire on his car in the 9400 block of South Ashland.

Prosecutors said in a detention petition that the victim cut in front of Kevin Reynoso, 23, due to an upcoming lane closure around 9:50 a.m. on January 24. The man returned to his lane, but Reynoso pulled alongside him and fired five shots at his car, the petition said. Investigators allegedly found five bullet marks on the victim’s Ford Fusion.

Prosecutors said the man recorded part of the incident on his phone, and the footage included the gunman’s license plate. Cops searched the plate’s registration, learned that it belonged to Reynoso, and they went to his home in Harvey, the petition said…

Then, one week later, around 11:35 a.m. on January 31, two drivers crashed in the 1500 block of South Racine.

The drivers got out of their cars, and one of them, identified as 50-year-old Maurice Jones, punched the other in the face and kicked him in the back, according to a CPD report.

Jones proceeded to pull out a gun and fired it into the ground next to where the other driver and his passenger were standing, prosecutors claimed.

Chicago police officers who spoke with Jones said in a report that he admitted to firing the gun and “related there were two of them and that they didn’t speak English and had no insurance.”

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