Sergio Ochoa

Sergio Ochoa was a 30-year-old Hispanic man who was killed in Chicago, Illinois, on August 21, 2021.

On that Saturday evening, just before 7 p.m., Ochoa was in a vehicle with another man in the city’s Marquette Park neighborhood. As they traveled west in the 3000 block of West 65th Street, someone outside the car opened fire on them. After the shots were fired, the vehicle crashed into a parked car and came to a stop.

Ochoa was struck by a gunshot to the head. He was rushed to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead. The Cook County medical examiner’s office later formally identified him. A second man in the vehicle, who was 36 years old, was shot in the shoulder. He was transported to Holy Cross Hospital in critical condition.

Chicago police began an investigation into the shooting. However, no arrests were immediately made in connection with the case. As of August 2021, the homicide of Sergio Ochoa remained unsolved.