Luis Alfaro / Photo from Chicago Police
BY MICHAEL LANSU
Homicide Watch Chicago Editor
Luis Alfaro was ordered on $1 million bond Thursday for allegedly setting up a drug deal that left Giovanni Galindo dead this month near Midway International Airport.
On Sept. 5, Alfaro was contacted by an acquaintance, who told Alfaro he planned to rob a drug dealer, said Assistant State’s Attorney Colleen Rogers.
The acquaintance asked Alfaro to set up a drug deal and promised to give Alfaro marijuana in return for setting up the robbery, Rogers said.
Alfaro called another acquaintance and set up a fake drug deal for later that day in the 6100 block of South Kilpatrick Avenue, Rogers said. During the meeting, somebody pulled out a gun and shot Galindo.
Galindo, 24, of the 10300 block of South Karlov Avenue in Oak Lawn, died at the scene, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Galindo had two daughters and enjoyed playing soccer and telling jokes, according to a friend, who is not being named because she is a minor.
“He was just the type of person you wanted to be around,” Galindo’s friend said. “He was hanging around with the wrong people and he shouldn’t have gone the way he did.”
The robbers fled with the drugs and later gave Alfaro some of the cannabis as payment for setting up the deal, Rogers said.
Giovanni Galindo / Photo from Dignity Memorial
Alfaro, of the 4100 block of West 57th Place, told police he set up the drug deal knowing about the robbery plan and was charged with first-degree murder despite not being at the scene, authorities said.
Alfaro, 18, attends Latino Youth High School, Assistant Public Defender Lakshmi Jha said at a Thursday bond hearing. Alfaro has also worked replacing hardwood floors, at a car wash and driving a U-Haul truck.
He is currently on probation for a 2014 misdemeanor conviction, according to court records.
Judge Maria Kuriakos-Ciesil ordered Alfaro held on $1 million bond. He will be back in court Oct. 7.
The other suspects have not yet been charged, authorities said.
— Contributing: Rummana Hussain