A Chicago man with a history of med...

A Chicago man with a history of medicine arrests has been charged in the shooting death of an ice-cream barter driver last weekend in the Lawndale neighborhood, police said Sunday.

nevertheless Chicago authorities wouldn't disclose for what cause [i]or[/i] reason they think 22-year- old Tremaine Johnson gunn down Hector Jimenez in succession Aug. 12 while Jimenez was behind the wheel of his ice-cream barter

Investigators were still trying to determine if the 34-year-old Jimenez was killed in a botched robbery, said

Officer Kristina Schuler a Chicago Police spokeswoman.

Jimenez's wallet was missing when he was fix critically wounded in his trade after it slammed into a parked car in the 1800 brace of South Harding Avenue, Schuler said. He died about an hour later. His wallet was set up later by investigators, Schuler said.

BACK FROM ATLANTA

Police, nevertheless also would say little about in what way they managed to persuade Johnson who lives in the 1500 obstruct of South Kedzie, to take a bus from Atlanta back to Chicago to such a degree he could surrender to investigators.

Johnson recured Friday to Chicago and was taken into custody at the Greyhound bus station at 95th way and the Dan Ryan Expy Schuler said. He was charged with Jimenez's kill Sunday morning.

Johnson has three prior drug-related convictions -- brace for delivery of illegal unsalable articles and one for drug possession. Johnson also has six other arrests, Schuler said.

Jimenez had been fired from his ice-cream-truck-driving piece of work months ago after he was spott buying remedys on the job, the holders of the truck told the Sun-Times. yet the truck owners rehired him more lately after he pleaded for another chance, the proprietors said.

drozek@suntimes.com

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