Chicago City Wire

The Chicago Police Department has withheld the name of a Latin School father who refused charges against a violent serial carjacker.

The driver who was involved in a collision while police pursued a suspected carjacker has refused to press felony charges against the accused.

The Chicago Police Department withheld the name of a Latin School father who couldn't identify the suspect as the man who stole his car, and that of the driver struck by the stolen vehicle.

The owner of the stolen vehicle is a parent who was carjacked on Sept. 15 while waiting to pick up his son from the school, located at 59 W North Blvd. in Chicago.

According to the police, the incident occurred near Clark Street and North Boulevard, where the 46-year-old was forced out of his $75,000 Audi at gunpoint.

“A gray Audi Q8 SUV had been hijacked at gunpoint by two male black offenders, one wearing a white T-shirt and one wearing black,” the police report by Chicago Police Officer Michael Mickey reads.

Mickey described a terrifying scene.

“Was sitting in the front passenger seat with the ignition on, putting a sticker on his front windshield when two unknown black male offenders approached saying, ‘Give me the f---ing car’ while one displayed a handgun,” Mickey wrote.  

The Latin School father's Audi was later found in the possession of Julius Rishawn Livingston, 36, whose address was listed as Dolton. After Livingston was spotted behind the wheel of the stolen vehicle, he led police on a chase that resulted in him striking another car.

Livingston was arrested on West Logan Boulevard, but the Audi owner couldn't identify Livingston as the culprit and the driver of the other car in the collision refused to press charges, allowing Livingston to walk with a misdemeanor, CWB Chicago reported.

“This is an on-view arrest by the city-wide hijacking team,” Officer A. Babicz wrote in the arrest report. “In sum, r/d was informed of the location for a vehicle which was taken during an aggravated hijacking. Officers set up a point of surveillance and observed Livingston enter the drivers seat.”

A vehicle following the Audi at the time of the carjacking, a 2019 Volvo SUV, had also been previously reported as stolen in a carjacking on Sept. 7, according to CWB Chicago. That Volvo was implicated in another Audi carjacking, and police said it was connected to a series of carjackings across the Chicagoland area.

Livingston was released on $1,500 recognizance bond in the incident. He is charged with leaving the scene and disregarding the traffic control light.

Similarly, on April 2, Livingston was arrested and charged with a crime involving receiving or possessing a stolen vehicle. In that case he again ran from police, crashing the vehicle — this time a Mercedes, according to the Chicago Sun Times— into a tree.

He was held for one day in that incident.

In 2015 he was arrested for driving on a suspended license, operating a vehicle without insurance, no vehicle registration and a parking violation. According to CWB Chicago, a prosecutor told a local judge that Livingston had a long criminal history including a forgery in 2012.

“The rest are guns and drugs,” the prosecutor said.

Calls to a number listed as Livingston’s were not returned.