A private security guard has been charged with first-degree murder and ordered held without bond following a shooting outside a Ford Heights club that left a 29-year-old Texas man dead, according to Cook County sheriff’s police.
Police said they responded at about 5:30 a.m. Saturday to a report for shots fired outside the Atlantis Gentlemen’s Club in the 1800 block of East Lincoln Highway.
Police said they found Jesus Galvan, of Pharr, Texas, shot in his pickup truck that had crashed near the club.
He was pronounced dead at the scene from a gunshot wound to the head, and his death was ruled a homicide, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
During their investigation, sheriff’s police detectives learned after Galvan and three others left the club and got into his truck, one of his passengers fired a gun multiple times and struck a parked vehicle belonging to the club’s security guard, Michael Long.
According to the investigation, when a club employee approached Galvan’s vehicle, Galvan displayed a firearm and was told to leave, according to police.
As the truck was leaving, Long fired multiple shots at the truck, one of which hit Galvan, police said.
Sheriff’s police said the Cook County state’s attorney’s office on Monday approved a charge of first-degree murder against Long, 52, of the 400 block of East Bowen in Chicago.
At an initial court hearing Tuesday, Long was held ordered without bond.
Sheriff’s police said a passenger in Galvan’s truck, Samuel Martinez, of East Chicago, Indiana, was charged with reckless discharge of a firearm. Bail for Martinez was set at $50,000 at a hearing Tuesday at the Markham courthouse, and he would have to post $5,000 to be released.
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