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Suspect in Addison shooting charged Bail set at $4 million for 20-year-old man arrested
a tree. When officials arrived, Bustos and Rios were inside the vehicle both unresponsive with gunshot wounds. Both were pronounced dead at area hospitals where they were taken. Authorities have not yet named the third man, who reportedly told
police he ran away when the gunfire started. He also told police that Rios fired one shot back at Vargas. Vargas was taken into custody on Sunday evening after police tracked him to Fairmont City, just outside East St. Louis, where he was reportedly staying with relatives.
Officials brought Vargas back to DuPage County; on Monday, he gave a videotaped confession. The relatives told police Vargas had arrived unexpectedly at their residence. Vargas told his relatives he was planning to leave for Mexico on Monday morning, in fact, he had
already purchased a bus ticket under a false name. Vargas’ next court appearance is scheduled for May 22 in front of Judge George Bakalis. If convicted on both counts, Vargas faces a mandatory sentence of natural life in prison.
By Dee Longfellow On Tuesday, May 9, the Independent learned that Jorge Vargas, 20, had been charged in connection with a shooting that took place in Addison on Saturday, May 6 and that a judge had set Vargas’ bail at $4 million. The suspect, Jorge Vargas 20-year-old Jorge Vargas of Villa Park, was charged with what law enforcement officials are referring to as a “targeted” shooting that resulted in the deaths of two men and an attempt at the life of a third. Vargas had been charged with two counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted murder. According to a report from DuPage County, Addison resident Kevin Bustos, 17, Villa Park resident Alberto Rios, 20, and a third person had parked outside an apartment building on Elizabeth Drive in Addison with the intent of visiting Rios’ children. Vargas reportedly fired eight rounds with a handgun from a third-story window of Rios’ ex-girlfriend’s apartment, where she lived with Rios’ two children. DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert Berlin’s office reported that Bustos apparently tried to drive away but crashed his vehicle into
Using their heads to learn about chicks
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Pictured are students from Lincoln School wearing the chicken hats they made for “H” Day, because H is for hats, according to the District 4 Schools Alphabet Countdown to the end of the school year. Not only did the students make and wear the hats, they are pictured here with an incubator containing some baby chicks, which were all part of the lesson. More photos inside this issue.
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