Eliseo Acosta | Homicide Watch Chicagohttp://homicides.suntimes.com/suspects/eliseo-acosta/Latest news about Eliseo Acostaen-usMon, 17 Aug 2015 14:29:01 -0500No bond for 17-year-old charged with fatal shooting of Ricardo Mendez-Bucio in Brighton Parkhttp://homicides.suntimes.com/2015/08/17/no-bond-for-17-year-old-charged-with-fatal-shooting-of-ricardo-mendez-bucio-in-brighton-park/<p><iframe src="http://homicides.suntimes.com/api/v1/homicides/1168.html" width="100%" height="350" frameborder=0></iframe><br /> By REEMA AMIN<br /> Chicago Sun-Times</p> <p>A Cook County judge denied bond Sunday for a 17-year-old boy accused of shooting 18-year-old <a href="http://homicides.suntimes.com/victims/ricardo-c-mendez-bucio/">Ricardo C. Mendez-Bucio</a> to death as he sat in a vehicle Thursday afternoon in the Southwest Side Brighton Park neighborhood.</p> <p><a href="http://homicides.suntimes.com/suspects/eliseo-acosta/">Eliseo Acosta</a> is charged as an adult with first-degree murder for the attack in the 4600 block of South Western, authorities aid.</p> <p>Mendez-Bucio was the front-seat passenger in a vehicle stopped at a red light on Western, waiting to turn left onto 47th Street, when Acosta walked by with a fellow Satan Disciples gang member, according to the Cook County state's attorney's office.</p> <p>Acosta began showing gang signs and yelling at the car, in front of pedestrians and others in cars, prosecutors said. He allegedly walked to Mendez-Bucio's side of the vehicle, pulled a handgun and fired one shot, striking him in the chest.<br /> <span id="more-12829"></span></p> <p>The victim, a driver and a back-seat passenger had put their hands up before the shooting, prosecutors said. After the shooting, the driver pulled the car into a gas station one block south, where police responded, the state's attorney's office said. Acosta had run off.</p> <p>Mendez-Bucio was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead a half-hour later, the Cook County medical examiner's office said. He lived in the 4500 block of South Paulina.</p> <p>Witnesses identified Acosta as the shooter, and he was later arrested, the state's attorney's office said.</p> <p>Cook County Judge Peggy Chiampas denied bond for Acosta on Sunday.</p> Jeff MayesMon, 17 Aug 2015 14:29:01 -0500http://homicides.suntimes.com/2015/08/17/no-bond-for-17-year-old-charged-with-fatal-shooting-of-ricardo-mendez-bucio-in-brighton-park/Ricardo C. Mendez-BucioEliseo Acosta