Second shooting takes place where student was killed
Kate Carlisle and Jeremy Mikula
Issue date: 2/1/10 Section: News
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This is the second shooting in just more than three months at the rental home located on the 1700 block of North Rockwell.
The shooting occurred at around 10:25 a.m. on Jan. 20. The incident is believed to be a drug deal gone wrong according to Chicago Police.
Reports said that the victim was shot when two individuals entered the home, displayed handguns and ordered everyone on the floor. When the victim attempted to flee he was shot twice in the back, according Cook County State's Attourney spokeman Andy Conklin. The victim was identified by police as a 32-year-old Caucasian man. The man was critically wounded when he was shot in the stomach by an unknown offender, according to police reports. He was taken to Stroger Hospital.
Drugs and a large amount of cash were recovered from the scene, said Chicago Police Officer Veejay Zala. However, Zala declined to confirm a FOX Chicago News report that $100,000 in cash was recovered.
Area 5 detectives are currently investigating the incident and have already questioned a few people believed to be involved.
The home at 1752 N. Rockwell St. is the place Valencia and friends rented for a Halloween party back in October. Valencia was killed when he received multiple gunshot wounds to the chest. Another DePaul student, Daisy Camacho, was also wounded when gang members returned to the house after partygoers had asked them to leave earlier in the evening, police said.
"Rockwell has always been gang infested," said CeaseFire coordinator Zale Hoddenbach.
CeaseFire is an anti-violence group that focuses primarily on preventing gun crimes by working with community-based organizations in Chicago. CeaseFire was started by The Chicago Project for Violence Prevention, an organization that started in 1995.
CeaseFire was formally launched in early 2000, and by 2006 was either established or in the process of being implemented in 15 Chicago neighborhoods and in five other cities in Illinois.
The group reaches out to people and neighborhoods at risk of violent shootings by using a street-level approach, public education, community mobilization, faith leader involvement, and police participation, according to the organization's Web site.
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