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John Velez was just 17 when he was found guilty of killing Anthony Hueneca in March 2001. Velez served 16 years in prison before the conviction was vacated after a witness’s admission that he hadn’t actually seen the shooting happen.
The boy was in the 5600 block of South Winchester Avenue about 4:30 p.m. when he suffered a gunshot wound to the thigh.
About 11:55 p.m. Saturday, the driver, a 25-year-old man, was found unresponsive with multiple gunshot wounds to his torso after he struck a viaduct in the 5800 block of South Elizabeth Street, Chicago police said.
Dion Butler, 34, was shot in his neck around 1 a.m. on the Fourth of July in the 6200 block of South Laflin Street. He later died at a South Side hospital.