Kenneth Williams, 20, left, and Michael Ward, 18, right, were charged with first-degree murder, attempted murder, and aggravated battery with a firearm according to
The Chicago Tribune . Ward confessed to police that he thought Hadiya's friends shot Williams last summer after being arrested on their way to celebrate at a strip club
Michael Ward, 18, and Kenneth Williams, 20, were each charged with first-degree murder, attempted murder and aggravated battery with a firearm in the Jan. 29 attack that also left two teens wounded.
Ward confessed to police that he and Williams mistook Pendleton's companions for gang members involved in the shooting of Williams last July, police Superintendent Garry McCarthy said at a news conference Monday night at Area Central police headquarters.
"The offenders had it all wrong. They thought the group they shot into included members of a rival gang. Instead it was a group of upstanding, determined kids who, like Hadiya, were repulsed by the gang lifestyle," said McCarthy, flanked by two dozen detectives and gang investigators who worked the case.
Detectives arrested the two Saturday night as the suspects were on their way to a suburban strip club to celebrate a friend's birthday, McCarthy said. Pendleton had been buried only hours earlier in a funeral attended by first lady Michelle Obama.
"I don't even know what to say about that," McCarthy said. "They were going out to celebrate at a strip club."
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