Two men have been charged after an early Friday gun battle outside an Austin neighborhood liquor store left 20-year-old Adriana Reyes dead on the West Side.
Ronnie Henderson | Chicago Police
Ronnie Henderson, 18, and Valentine Rodriguez, 25, are charged with aggravated assault, aggravated discharge of a firearm on an occupied vehicle, and murder/forcible felony for the attack that started shortly after 2 a.m., according to Chicago Police.
Reyes was inside a vehicle with Henderson and Rodriguez when they got into an argument with a group of people in another vehicle in the parking lot of the store near Lake and Cicero, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Henderson fired shots at the other vehicle during the altercation, and when armed security guards from the store walked outside, he fired at them too, police said. The security guards returned fire, and all three people in the vehicle were struck during the exchange.
Reyes was shot twice in the head and once in the arm, and was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where she was pronounced dead at 5 a.m., authorities said. She lived in the 3100 block of West Augusta.
Police on Sunday said it wasn’t clear who fired the bullets that killed Reyes.
Rodriguez, of the 3600 block of North Troy, was struck by a bullet that went through his shoulder and out his cheek. He was taken to Stroger Hospital in critical condition, police said.
Henderson, of the 3100 block of West Ohio, was shot in the hand and taken to Mount Sinai, where his condition stabilized, police said.
Both men were ordered held without bond.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire