Aurora Gang Member Sentenced to 50 Years for 1990 Murder

On Wednesday, Michael A. Luciano was sentenced to 50 years in prison for a murder 26 years ago, according to a Kane County State’s Attorney press release.

Associate Judge Linda Abrahamson sentenced the 44-year-old Luciano for a crime committed when he was 17.

On Oct. 31, 1990. 24-year-old Albert Gonzalez was shot to death through a window as he stood in his home on the 300 block of Grove Street. Luciano, and his father, gang leader Angel “Doc” Luciano, ordered the shooting, supplied the murder weapons and collected them afterward, according to prosecutors. Two others were convicted for the death of Gonzales.

Luciano was convicted in 2008, and he was sentenced to life in prison because he had been convicted of a previous murder that occurred in 1989.

In 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court in ruled that mandatory life sentences for juveniles were unconstitutional, and Luciano had to be resentenced.

Luciano's combined sentence for the two murders is 88 years.

“Michael Luciano was a leader in a violent street gang at a time when street gangs notoriously kept the citizens of the city of Aurora on edge. Despite his young age, he was a violent criminal who murdered two people," Kane County State’s Attorney Joe McMahon said in the press release. “When the citizens of Aurora began to push back against the gangs, he fled the community where he had inflicted so much damage and thought he would escape accountability. But as we’ve seen so many times, the past has a way of catching up to criminals."

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