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In the early morning hours of Sunday, May 3, 2026, the life of 31-year-old Aaron Lee Vidales Jr. was tragically cut short in a burst of gunfire. A Joliet police officer, positioned near Anthony's Restaurant and Pub, heard multiple gunshots coming from the adjacent parking lot of a Dollar Tree on Colorado Avenue shortly before 2 a.m. Responding officers discovered Vidales in the parking lot with a gunshot wound to his head. He was rushed by the Joliet Fire Department to St. Joseph Medical Center, ...Read More

Victim Details

Aaron Lee Vidales, Jr.

Male

Black / African American

Joliet

IL

2026-05-03

31

Aaron

Lee Vidales Jr.

05/25/2026