A paraplegic man whose 100 year sentence for his role in the 2014 slaying of 14-year-old Endia Martin was overturned was shot Monday afternoon on the Near North Side, Chicago police said.
Officers were called to the 900 block of North Dearborn Street about 5 p.m. Monday where Donnell A. Flora, now 36, told them he was shot in the leg by an “unknown offender” who was wearing pink shorts, according to a police report obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times.
Flora was convicted in January 2016 of Endia’s first-degree murder and the attempted first-degree murder of her friend, Lanekia Reynolds. The conviction was overturned on appeal in 2020. Prosecutors said Flora, who was paralyzed in a shooting in 2010 and uses a wheelchair, handed a gun to his niece who was then 14, and she used it to kill Endia.
On Monday, Flora told police he was at Clark and Division streets when the shorts-wearing attacker “approached him and demanded he hand over an item,” which he denied having, causing the attacker to shoot him, a police report said.
Flora allegedly gave conflicting statements to paramedics, according to the report, and said he was shot while fighting back during a robbery.
Flora was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital suffering from a “through and through” gunshot wound to the left leg, according to the report. He was listed in good condition.
Police could not find a crime scene or any shell casings because Flora allegedly could not give an exact location where he was shot, the report stated, but a pair of pink shorts was found in a garbage can at 915 N. Dearborn St.
Area 3 detectives are investigating.
