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First suspect in Dec. 20 drive-by shooting to be arraigned tomorrow : News : Oswego Ledger-Sentinel : Hometown Newspaper for Oswego and Montgomery, IllinoisFirst suspect in Dec. 20 drive-by shooting to be arraigned tomorrow
| Second suspect to appear in court Jan. 21
| by Tony Scott
| 1/14/2010
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A 16-year-old Aurora resident accused of murdering another teenager in Oswego last month in an apparent gang-related shooting appeared at a hearing last week at the Kendall County Courthouse in Yorkville last Thursday.
Zachary A. Reyes is being held on a $3 million bond at the Kane County Juvenile Justice Center, and is facing charges of first degree murder, aggravated battery with a firearm, attempted first degree murder and aggravated discharge of a firearm.
Arrested with Reyes was Francisco D. Salazar, 20, also of Aurora, who is being held on a $1.5 million bond at the Kendall County jail in Yorkville.
During last Thursday's hearing, Judge Clint Hull set an arraignment for Reyes for this Friday, Jan. 15 at 9 a.m. Salazar is scheduled to make his first court appearance on Jan. 21.
Reyes and Salazar are charged in connection with what police say was a gang-related shooting early in the morning of Dec. 20 that left an Aurora teen dead and another teen injured.
Police say that shots were fired from one vehicle and struck another vehicle as both vehicles were proceeding eastbound on Long Beach Road, approaching Douglas Road in the unincorporated Boulder Hill Subdivision.
One of the vehicles then proceeded one block east on Long Beach Road and crashed in the yard of a residence at the corner of Long Beach Road and Sonora Road in the unincorporated Boulder Hill Subdivision.
The driver of the vehicle that was shot at, Jason Ventura, 17, of Aurora, was shot in the head while his 18-year-old front seat passenger was shot in the left arm. Ventura was pronounced dead at the scene, and the wounded passenger was taken to Rush Copley Medical Center in Aurora.
Police said a back seat passenger, who was uninjured, told a Kendall County Sheriff's deputy that they were sitting at a traffic light at Long Beach and Douglas roads when someone in a black Chevy Tahoe shot at their car.
Within 30 minutes of the shooting, Sherwood said, Oswego Police stopped a vehicle at Broadway Avenue (Ill. Route 25) and Evans Street in Aurora, just north of Spring Lake Cemetery matching the description of the vehicle involved in the incident.
Police brought the five occupants of that vehicle in for questioning and later arrested Reyes and Salazar.
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