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Rapper shot as many as 64 times as he walked out of Chicago jail

Londre Sylvester, 31, was walking to a waiting vehicle when several suspects “exited two separate vehicles and all began to shoot," police said.
/ Source: The Associated Press

CHICAGO — A man who was apparently ambushed after being released from the Cook County Jail in Chicago suffered as many as 64 bullet wounds to his head and other parts of his body, police said.

Image: Londre Sylvester
Londre Sylvester.Cook County Sheriff's Office

The shooting Saturday night killed Londre Sylvester, 31, a police report said. He was pronounced dead at a hospital.

NBC Chicago reported the victim was a local rapper who went by the stage name KTS Dre.

Sylvester had just been released after being fitted for electronic monitoring and was walking to a waiting vehicle when several suspects “exited two separate vehicles and all began to shoot in Sylvester’s direction, striking him numerous times,” the police report said.

The killing comes amid a rise in shootings this year in Chicago and broader concerns nationwide about increasing violence. On Monday, Chicago police Superintendent David Brown was among city and law enforcement leaders from around the United States meeting with President Joe Biden about efforts to reduce crime.

Following Saturday night’s shooting, the suspects reentered their vehicles and fled the scene, police said.

A 60-year-old woman who was with Sylvester was shot in one of her knees and was hospitalized in good condition, police said. A second woman, who is in her 30s, suffered a graze wound to her mouth, police said.

Image: Cook County Jail in Chicago
Cook County Jail in Chicago.Jim Vondruska / Reuters

Sylvester had posted $5,000 bail on Friday, the Chicago Tribune reported. He had been ordered held on $50,000 bail on July 1 after prosecutors last month hit him with a petition for violation of bail bond for allegedly failing to meet conditions of his release in a 2020 felony gun case.