killed three people and injured a fourth outside a Chicago gay bar earlier this month.Tavis Dunbar, 34, was taken into police custody on Aug.
22 and charged with three counts of first-degree murder and one count of first-degree attempted murder, Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown said during a news conference on Tuesday, which was shared on Facebook.
Brown claimed an investigation showed Dunbar “intentionally struck multiple pedestrians” when he plowed his car into a crowd of people gathered outside the Jeffery Pub, a Black-owned gay club on Chicago’s South Side, around 5 a.m.
on Aug. 14.Police say that at the time of the crash, after the bar had closed, a group of people were fighting in the street when a sedan accelerated and careened into Three patrons were killed in the crash: 27-year-old Chicago resident Devonta Vivetter, 25-year-old South Holland native Donald Huey, who had been planning to move back to the Chicago area from Los Angeles, and 23-year-old Jaylen Ausley, who had recently graduated from the University of Michigan.