DEA Has 1 Locked Up Following Louis Mall Shooting

JOLIET, IL — A Cicero man was being held for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration at the Will County jail the morning after agents gunned a man down outside the Louis Joliet mall.

Fernando Gondinez, 44, was booked into custody just before midnight Tuesday.DEA agents shot a man during a drug investigation in the mall parking lot about 5:30 p.m. Tuesday.

The wounded man was also apprehended, police said.

Special Agent Leo Hawkins, the DEA’s Chicago spokesman, would not comment on the shooting Tuesday and has yet to provide information on the incident.