A South Side woman accused of fatally shooting her young son during an apparent mental health emergency in 2021 was acquitted of murder by reason of insanity charges earlier this month, according to court documents.
Fallon C. Harris, 40, was acquitted of six counts of first-degree murder by Judge Thomas J. Byrne on Sept. 19 in connection with the death of her son Kaden Harris-Ingram, according to court records. A mental disability evaluation report submitted to the court and signed by Byrne indicated that Harris was incompetent to stand trial in a criminal case.
The judge also ordered that the former city employee be transferred to a secure Illinois Department of Human Services facility for inpatient evaluation and treatment, records show. Harris, formerly of Chicago’s South Side, remained in custody at the Cook County Jail Saturday evening.
Harris had been in custody since September 2021 and was charged the day after prosecutors said she confronted her 12-year-old son at gunpoint inside their home in the 8000 block from South Bennett Avenue.
Harris, a former worker paid $45.90 an hour for the city’s Department of Transportation, allegedly asked the boy for the location of a digital storage drive she had removed from her vehicle at night previous and allegedly shot him while he was not spinning the disc. article finished.
After officers arrived at the home, Harris opened the front door and said she shot her son before leading them to the silver revolver she used, prosecutors said during her bail investigation.
The woman’s family later told the Tribune that Harris suffered from mental health issues immediately before the shooting, displaying “strange and erratic behaviors” before the shooting.
“Her son was her best friend,” Lavell Ingram, Harris’ ex-husband, told the Tribune. “She would never do anything to harm this baby. There were a lot of mental problems and we failed to realize it. And when we recognized him, it was too late.
