Love Triangle, Drug Deal Led To Rolling Meadows Shooting: Police

ROLLING MEADOWS, IL — A Rolling Meadows man on parole for armed robbery faces first-degree murder charges after a Palatine man was fatally shot Sunday, the Daily Herald reports. Authorities said the shooting stemmed from a romantic triangle and a marijuana sale, according to the paper.

On Tuesday, a Cook County judge ordered 20-year-old Brian Guillen be held without bond, two days after authorities were called to the 2000 block of Kirchoff Road around 5 a.m. and found 39-year-old Marco Antonio Guerrero-Lopez with a gunshot wound to the abdomen, according to the paper. He was pronounced dead less than an hour later at Northwest Community Hospital in Arlington Heights, authorities said.

According to prosecutors cited in the report, around 4:15 a.m. Sunday, Guerrero-Lopez drove his 19-year-old niece and her friend — a 21-year-old woman who Assistant Cook County State's Attorney C.J. Orrantia said had an intimate relationship with Guillen — to a home in the 300 block of South Wilke Road to buy $20 worth of marijuana.

After the purchase was made and the three drove off, Guillen's girlfriend texted the 21-year-old indicating that she knew about her sexual relationship with Guillen, and the women agreed to meet in the area of Kirchoff Road and Dove street to fight, according to Orrantia.

According to Orrantia, Guillen shot Guerrero-Lopez in the stomach as the women fought. Guillen and his girlfriend left and went to his home, where police found them about an hour later, in addition to a gun, prosecutors cited by the Daily Herald said.

According to Cook County Sheriff's office records, Guillen is scheduled to appear in Rolling Meadows court on May 20.

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