By JORDAN OWEN
Chicago Sun-Times Wire
Erick Horton | Cook County Sheriff’s Dept.
A 36-year-old man has been released from the Cook County Jail after he was acquitted of the 2014 murder Nigell Vazquez in the South Side Chatham neighborhood.
Erick T. Horton was found not guilty Wednesday after a bench trial before Judge Kenneth Wadas, according to Cook County court records.
Horton had been accused of shooting the 22-year-old Vazquez in the 8600 block of South Ingleside Avenue about 8:30 p.m. on Sept. 4, 2014, authorities said.
Vazquez had been standing on a porch when two men walked up and started shooting, Chicago Police said at the time. A witness told police she heard about a dozen shots.
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Vazquez, of the 1700 block of East 56th Street, was shot twice in the back, and died about an hour later at Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn.
Horton was arrested about six weeks after the shooting, and had been held without bond. He was released Wednesday, according to the Cook County sheriff’s office.