Ricky Vera, a 50-year-old Hispanic man, was killed in a mass shooting outside Vera Lounge in the Portage Park neighborhood of Chicago on December 11, 2022. The shooting occurred about 2:30 a.m. during a birthday party for his niece, Mariah Vera. An altercation led to 32-year-old Samuel Parsons-Salas being asked to leave; he then retrieved a gun from a vehicle and opened fire on the crowd gathered outside the bar.

Surveillance footage reportedly shows Parsons-Salas firing at point-blank range, then getting into a dark SUV and fleeing. Ricky Vera and two others, 24-year-old Mercedes Tavares and 26-year-old Mario Pozuelos, were pronounced dead at the scene. Mariah Vera, 25, was critically injured after being shot in the head while trying to tend to her father’s wounds. Parsons-Salas, described as a recently paroled felon with a prior 2009 conviction for a fatal home invasion, was charged with three counts of first-degree murder, one count of attempted murder and armed kidnapping.

Vera Lounge was ordered closed by Chicago police following the shooting. What details can anyone who was there or has information about that night share to help the investigation?