Joshua Johnson / Photo from Chicago Police
BY TINA SFONDELES
Chicago Sun-Times
An alleged gang member has been charged with murder after prosecutors said him and a friend fatally shot a 68-year-old man during a 2013 robbery in the Logan Square neighborhood.
Joshua Johnson, 23, was nabbed at the Rolling Meadows courthouse on Friday when he appeared for an unrelated case.
He now also faces first-degree murder charges for the Dec. 12, 2013, shooting death of Cayetano Sandoval in the 1900 block of North Spaulding Avenue.
Prosecutors said Sandoval had just returned home from his job at a bakery when Johnson and another man approached him after he parked his van about 2 a.m.
Johnson demanded Sandoval give them money and began hitting him. Johnson held Sandoval down and the other man took out a gun and opened fire, prosecutors said.
Sandoval was shot five times and died at the scene, authorities said.
Prosecutors said the robbers, both Latin Kings gang members, fled after the shooting.
Surveillance cameras captured the murder, and several witnesses also saw the shooting, prosecutors said.
The robbers fled to a friend's home, and that friend gave police a statement about the murder, prosecutors said.
Cayetano Sandoval
Johnson himself admitted he hit Sandoval as they tried to rob him and also held him down as the other man shot him, prosecutors said.
Despite not pulling the trigger, Johnson was charged with murder and attempted armed robbery. The other man has not yet been charged.
Johnson, whose home address is listed as the 8500 block of South Avalon Avenue and the 1900 block of Oakton Street in Elk Grove Village, has previously been convicted of felony residential burglary and felony burglary.
On Saturday, Judge Peggy Chiampas ordered Johnson held without bond. He will be back in court Monday.