Girlfriend of slain man accuses alleged Chicago gang member

CHICAGO (AP) - The fiancee of a federal informant allegedly killed by a purported street-gang leader told jurors that she recognized the masked gunman as he ambushed her family in suburban Chicago.

Shanice Peatry testified Monday that the man shot her fiance, Keith Daniels, while the couple and their two children were outside her Dolton apartment in April 2013. Peatry said she recognized the gunman's eyes and his dreadlocks sticking out from his mask.

"It was so many (shots), I couldn't count," Peatry said. "It kind of felt like it was in slow motion to me, like he wasn't in no rush."

When asked to identify the gunman in court, Peatry pointed at Paris Poe, an alleged Hobos gang leader.

"Him, right there," she said in a barely audible voice.

Months before his death, Daniels was relocated to south suburban Dolton for his safety after it was revealed that he was a key informant in a narcotics trafficking case against another alleged leader of the Hobos gang, Gregory Chester.

Federal prosecutors said Poe cut off a court-ordered electronic device and killed Daniels to keep him from testifying.

Peatry's testimony was part of prosecutors' case against Poe and five other alleged Hobos members. The sweeping racketeering conspiracy charges accuse the gang of nine killings, as well as shootings, robberies and home invasions. If convicted, all six of the alleged gang members could face up to life in prison.

Poe's attorneys have alleged that Peatry outed Daniels as an informant a year before his death, and that many people may have wanted him dead.