Apr 19, 2008 4:33 pm US/Central
Family Hopes Community Will Help Find Killer
CHICAGO (CBS) ―
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Alejandra Alex Calderon was gunned down by ganag members in a drive by shooting July 29, 2007. Police are asking the community for help in finding his killer.
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Family and friends of Alejandra Alex Calderon walk the streets of the Chicago Lawn neighborhood Saturday where their loved one was murdered July 29, 2007 in an attempt to find the killer, as CBS 2's Mike Puccinelli reports.
It was the worst day of Calderon's older sister's life.
"It's hard to live without a person who was so beautiful and wake up day after day without having him," said Calderon's sister Jessica Zavala.
The head of Cook County Crime Stoppers says Calderon was killed while sitting on his porch, by a carload of gang members.
"A car passed by and flashed some gang signs, the car circled the block a second time and flashed gang signs," said Cook County Crime Stoppers Chairman George McDade. "The third time the car drove by Alex turned around and said there are no gang members here."
Alex and another brother didn't go inside because they were waiting for their sisters to come inside from parking their car. But before they made it home, the killers returned and shot Alex in the head. Knowing that he died trying to protect her, haunts Jessica.
"It kills me and my other sister," she said. "It's a thing we have to live with every day of our lives."
More than eight months after he was shot, the sidewalk in front of his home is still stained with blood. And while they can't remove the stain, his killers can be removed from society, but only with the help of the community.
"I believe someone in that neighborhood knows," McDade said. "Now I'm asking that neighborhood to tell us."
Up to $1,000 will be awarded for information leading to an arrest.
"I'm begging anyone that knows anything to let us know," Zavala said.
And Zavala wants potential tipsters to know that her brother worked to try and keep area youth in boxing rings and off the streets; now she hopes the community will work to catch his killer.
If you have any information that could help solve the crime, call Crime Stoppers at (800) 535-STOP.
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