6 alleged Chicago gang members indicted in federal racketeering case alleging 13 homicides

Madeline Buckley, Chicago Tribune on Dec 22, 2025

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CHICAGO — A federal grand jury has indicted six purported Chicago gang members for racketeering conspiracy, accusing the gang of involvement in 13 homicides as well as spates of other violence across the city in service of protecting their South Side territory.

In a sweeping indictment unsealed on Friday, the alleged Faceworld street gang members are accused in carjackings and armed robberies, along with shooting at passengers on a Chicago Transit Authority bus and mourners at a rival gang member’s funeral.

Charged in the indictment with racketeering conspiracy are Dontae Harper, 28, Tyrone Foy, 31, Tyjuan Tapplar, 25, Robert Lee Thomas, 22, Davion Harris, 28, and Deavean McClure, 26. Harper, Foy and Tapplar are also charged with murder in aid of racketeering.

The South Side-based street gang has been an ongoing target for federal law enforcement, with at least two other associates charged in 2023 with murder and racketeering.

Associates and leaders enriched themselves through drug dealing and robberies while using violence to protect their territory and operations, the indictment alleges.

“The Faceworld Enterprise engaged in longstanding and violent feuds with several rival street gangs, including ‘Wuga World’ and ‘900,’ among others,” the indictment alleges. “Over the course of these conflicts, Faceworld Enterprise members and associates committed acts of violence against their rivals inside rival territory and in areas where rivals were believed to be located.”

Among the murders alleged in the indictment are the 2019 slayings of Brittani Rice and Senobia Brantley and Chantell Grant and Andrea Stoudemire.

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