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Bond denied for man accused of shooting 4 people outside South Side nighclub
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July 6, 2009

BY RUMMANA HUSSAIN Criminal Courts Reporter/rhussain@suntimes.com
A 25-year-old man was ordered held without bond today on charges he shot at police officers during a shooting in which four people were wounded outside a South Side nightclub over the holiday weekend.

“The danger is just too much,” Cook County Judge Adam D. Bourgeois Jr. said in issuing his no bond order for Andre Lemon’s alleged actions.

Uniformed officers spotted Lemon shooting a .40 caliber weapon into a crowd that had dispersed outside following a fight inside the club early Sunday, prosecutors said. Lemon, of the 5400 block of South Calumet Avenue, ignored the officers’ orders to drop his weapon and instead fired two rounds at them, assistant state’s attorney Marilyn Alioto said. The officers, who were not injured, returned fire and shot Lemon in the hand, Alioto said.

Four were shot in the melee that led the officers to the scene.

A man who was shot outside the club, at 72 E. 75th Street, is paralyzed and another male victim suffered gun shot wounds to the abdomen and legs, Alioto said.

Another man was shot in the left foot. The final victim, who identified Lemon, was shot in the armpit and legs, Alioto said.

Police saw Lemon throw his gun under a parked vehicle as he fled from the scene, Alioto said. In the same area, police found another 9mm gun under another vehicle near where the victims were shot. Several spent .40 caliber and 9 mm casings were recovered, Alioto said.

Lemon has several drug convictions. Most recently he was sentenced to three years in prison in 2005 on aggravated battery to a government official and possession of a controlled substance charges.