Gerardo Rodriguez, 31, of Chicago was killed on March 8, 2016 in an incident investigators later tied to a counterfeit identification document ring operating in Little Village. Prosecutors say brothers Julio and Manuel Leija-Sanchez ran the organization and ordered Rodriguez’s killing to eliminate competition and deter former employees from opening a rival operation.

Gerardo Salazar-Rodriguez allegedly carried out the killing; reports say he fired more than a dozen shots and that the murder was execution-style. The case was prosecuted as part of Operation Paper Tiger, a multiagency investigation that targeted the fraudulent document network.

Trials resulted in convictions on charges including murder in aid of racketeering, racketeering conspiracy, and conspiracy to commit murder abroad, and those convictions produced mandatory life sentences for the defendants named in the prosecution. Does anyone have information about Rodriguez’s life in Little Village or about the counterfeit document operation?