Thread: Alleged gang member charged in Harvey murder

Alleged gang member charged in Harvey murder
Family has faced two murders, two attempted murders and a shot-up home in its feud with gang

March 10, 2007
By Kim Janssen Staff writer
A family's long ordeal at the hands of a street gang may have come to an end Friday when Cook County sheriff's police and prosecutors did what Harvey police were unable to do -- charge Selvintez Doty with murder.

Doty, 24, gunned down Jesse Santillan outside Santillan's home in the 16500 block of Emerald Avenue on Valentine's Day 2006, according to the charges.

Santillan, 16, who was shot several times, was targeted by Doty because he had broken the Latin Kings' code by trying to leave the gang, Santillan's family said.

His murder was followed by a brutal campaign of intimidation against the family by the gang, whose members shot up the family's home, killed Santillan's uncle in July, tried to kill his mother and his 12-year-old sister in November and were involved in the death of his cousin, Rolando Becerra, on Feb. 4, according to prosecutors.

Charges in all four cases were filed in recent weeks after a Jan. 24 raid by state police and County sheriff's police on the Harvey police station in which several murder-case files were removed.

Doty and his brother Bobby Doty, 22, are charged with the attempted murder of Edith Garcia, Jesse Santillan's mother, and her daughter as a result of the raid.

Reyes Aranda, 19, also is charged in that case and is accused of killing Raphael Santillan, 57, Jesse's uncle.

Adrian Castro, a friend of Becerra, faces involuntary manslaughter charges in Becerra's death. Becerra was fleeing the Latin Kings when a gun accidentally went off in his face as Castro passed it to him, prosecutors said.

The charges filed Friday against Selvintez Doty tie up the last remaining major case believed to be connected to the ongoing Latin Kings' campaign against the family, sources said.

Garcia declined to comment Friday, citing ongoing concern for her family's safety.

Selvintez Doty is scheduled to appears in court Monday at the Markham courthouse.



Kim Janssen may be reached at
kjanssen@dailysouthtown.com
or (70 633-5998.

Soemthing has to be done about these game banging A-holes, they must be charged with terrorism, after all that is what they do terrorize people and for the most part get away with it, our concerns about jihadist is all good and well, meanwhile the gang bullies are tearing up our nation with impunity, and what was it our wonderful Gonzales was saying" they have just fallen on hard times" speaking of the gang bangers, our President and our head of the justice dept are really 2 sick puppies!

our President and our head of the justice dept are really 2 sick puppies!

You got that right.

Congress is obviously going to let history judge bush. For some reason or another they refuse to rid us of this insane, inept moron...but gonzalez, why cant they fire him somehow? He is clearly an un-American traitor who only cares for his mexican people.

Justice dept. is now an oxymoron much like our 'intelligence' agencies.
Watching these idiots operate is like watching the old Get Smart series.