Crime & Safety

Two Men Charged With First Degree Murder After Wheeling Homicide

The bond was set at $2 million for an Arlington Heights man after a Wheeling shooting last week.

A Cook County judge has ordered a $2 million bond for Jesus Sanchez of Arlington Heights who is accused of fatally shooting 23-year-old Rafael Orozco of Wheeling last Wednesday, according to the Daily Herald.

Sanchez, 18, of the 2000 block of West Nichols Road, is accused of trying to kill a teenage boy who had left his gang for a rival gang during the Wednesday shooting, but instead shot Orozco, according to the article. 

Orozco was pronounced dead around 9:50 p.m. at Glenbrook Hospital in Glenview after suffering a gunshot wound to the back, theChicago Sun-Times reports.

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