As his young children looked on, a 51-year-old South Side drug rehabilitation counselor allegedly shot a man who was trying to sell the counselor narcotics, Cook County prosecutors said Tuesday afternoon.
Elliot G. Mayfield was with his 11-year-old daughter, a stepdaughter and a friend when he shot Samuel Fullilove at a Woodlawn bus stop Sunday night, Assistant State’s Attorney Angel Essig said at a bond hearing Tuesday afternoon on Mayfield’s first-degree murder charges.
Mayfield was talking to another man, a former co-worker and client, at the bus stop at 6114 S. Martin Luther King Drive when Fullilove approached and tried to sell him drugs, Essig said.
Mayfield told police Fullilove, 33, started yelling at him, saying “Breezy did it. He won the Super Bowl. I got nickel rocks. I got nickel blows,” a police report said.
Mayfield, who has a 1990 drug conviction, refused and said, “I don’t do that anymore. I am just trying to make sure that my daughters get home safely,” the police report said.
But Fullilove kept taunting the older man and even swung at Mayfield but didn’t make contact, Essig said.
Fullilove also got into one of “his daughter’s faces,’’ the police report said, and Mayfield became angry.
Fullilove even chased Mayfield around as his daughter cried, “Leave my daddy alone.”
Mayfield eventually pulled out a handgun and drew it to Fullilove’s face, Essig said, but the taunts continued. Mayfield then allegedly shot Fullilove in the chest, killing him.
Mayfield, of the 6000 block of South Calumet, fled with the girls in car of the former client he had been talking to, Essig said.
Mayfield called a former girlfriend, telling her “something had happened,” the police report said. The woman told Mayfield that police had called her and urged him to call detectives.
Mayfield later called authorities to “clear things up” and told them he could be found at 7749 S. Lowe, police said.
He also showed officers where he hid the .25 caliber semi-automatic handgun wrapped in a plastic, the police report said.
Mayfield was ordered held in lieu of $800,000 bail. His relatives refused comment following the bond hearing.
Fullilove has an extensive criminal history, according to court records.
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