Jezabell Perez was a 22-year-old Hispanic mother of two young daughters who was shot and killed on the night of August 24, 2022, in Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood. She was driving with her 24-year-old sister and the two children when a confrontation occurred with occupants of a parked car on 26th Street. After an initial argument and a cup of water thrown, the cars met again about 8:20 p.m. in an alley in the 2700 block of South Homan Avenue. Jezabell got out of her car and began banging on the other vehicle’s driver-side window; prosecutors say shots were fired after one occupant briefly left to retrieve firearms from a nearby tow lot. Jezabell was struck multiple times in the torso and later pronounced dead at Mount Sinai Hospital. Her sister survived gunshot wounds to the buttocks and abdomen.

Prosecutors say the shooting followed an earlier altercation: on August 7, 2022, the same 16-year-old, Roberto Jimenez, had shot Jezabell’s sister after she approached his new girlfriend’s car over a Facebook post. A few days after the August 24 killing, police arrested Roberto Jimenez and charged him as an adult with first-degree murder, attempted murder, and two counts of aggravated battery, including one count tied to the August 7 incident. The case was moving forward in court as of late August 2022.

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