<body><div><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=4aVXS9_0wEwE1g100" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=4aVXS9_0wEwE1g100" width="1200" height="630" ><figcaption>Jesus Pena and Juan Salgado (Chicago Police Department, National Gun Violence Memorial)</figcaption></figure>CHICAGO — Prosecutors have charged a man with fatally shooting a 17-year-old high school soccer team captain as the victim drove home from practice with two friends this summer.Juan Salgado, captain of Benito Juarez Academy’s soccer team, was driving two friends home when someone opened fire on his car in the 3800 block of West 26th Street around 5 p.m. on August 19. His passengers, boys ages 17 and 18, were not injured.Chicago police investigators used video and phone location data to identify the gunman as 33-year-old Jesus Pena, according to court records.Judge Caroline Glennon-Goodman detained Pena as a public safety threat, saying he was seen on video shooting at Salgado’s car. Chicago police surveillance camera footage and video from a liquor store were part of the evidence. The judge said police determined that Pena’s phone put him at “various locations” related to the shooting.He is charged with first-degree murder and two counts of aggravated discharge of a firearm.“This is a tragic loss, not just for the family but for the community—a senseless loss of talent, skill, and leadership,” Fr. Brendan Curran told WGN this summer.</div></body>

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Man charged with murdering high school soccer captain; ‘a senseless loss of talent, skill, and leadership’

CHICAGO — Prosecutors have charged a man with fatally shooting a 17-year-old high school soccer team captain as the victim drove home from practice with two friends this summer. Juan Salgado, captain of Benito Juarez Academy’s soccer team, was driving two friends home when someone opened fire on his...