Chicago police charged a man with murder for allegedly shooting three people after being asked to leave a Portage Park bar birthday party early Sunday morning.
A candle is lit Sunday, Dec. 11, 2022, after a bar fight led to a fatal shooting near West School Street and North Central Avenue on the Northwest Side overnight, leaving three dead and one in critical condition.
Chicago police charged a man with murder for allegedly shooting dead three people after being asked to leave a birthday party early Sunday morning at a Portage Park bar. Chicago police Superintendent David Brown announced five charges against 32-year-old Samuel Parsons-Salas at a news conference Tuesday: three for first-degree murder, one for first-degree attempted murder and one for kidnapping with a firearm.Before the shooting, witnesses reported that there was “a disturbance inside” the bar near Central Avenue and School Street and said Parsons-Salas was asked to leave the birthday party going on inside, Brown said.
The Cook County medical examiner’s office identified the victims as Ricky Vera, 50, of an unknown address, Mario Pozuelos, 26, of Franklin Park, and Mercedes Tavares, 24, from Chicago Heights. A 25-year-old woman was shot in the head and taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center in critical condition, police said.“It was heartless,” Brown said, urging judges to severely punish the shooter. “Throw away the key. Get this person off our streets. … Throw the book at him.
After the shooting, Parsons-Salas drove away with a woman in his car, holding her against her will, CPD Chief of Detectives Brendan Deenihan said. He attempted to flee on foot when officers
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